Word: gauntness
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...sweet young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
...professional fighting men have sought martyrdom more insistently than gaunt, intense Captain John G. Crommelin, U.S.N. It was Airman Crommelin who set off the acrimonious Navy hearings last fall, encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being...
With the U.S. Government running into the red at the rate of $10,000 a minute, gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse last week issued a stern warning. Said President Truman's former chief economic adviser: the Administration's reckless spending under its "pie in the sky" philosophy would, unless checked by tough-minded slashes, lead to "strain and possible breakdown" of the U.S. economy...
Which Day Was Worst? The gaunt men & women were survivors of Eastern Germany's concentration camps. Released by the Russians as a propaganda gesture, they were the last of some 200,000 political prisoners whom the Russians had interned since the end of the war in the infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General...
...bombarded uranium with atomic particles from the cyclotron and produced neptunium, a new "synthetic" element with 93 electrons. Next, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg and co-workers discovered plutonium (No. 94), and, four years later, at the University of Chicago, americium (No. 95) and curium (No. 96). Last week tall, gaunt, 37-year-old Chemist Seaborg and his associates were in the news again. By bombarding americium with alpha particles, they had produced another new element, with 97 electrons...