Word: gauntness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Allies have told me that dismantling would be stopped only if I satisfy the Allied desire for security," he said. "Does the Socialist Party want dismantling to go on to the bitter end?" Amid rattling desk tops and cries of "Pfui!" gaunt, fiery-eyed Socialist Boss Kurt Schumacher called Adenauer a liar, shouted: "Chancellor of the Allies...
...Michael Scott is a tall, gaunt-faced Anglican minister who has labored a good part of his 43 years among South Africa's underdog black men. "My religion," he says, "knows no color bar." He likes to quote Paul's Epistle to the Colossians: "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ...
...Jake Kramer, 28, king of the pro tennis players, looked a little gaunt at 162 Ibs. For two years, from Madrid to Melbourne, he had been eating in hotels and hash-houses, sleeping when he could, trying to stay fit for one big match after another. Last week Big Jake cast a quizzical eye upon 190-lb. Pancho Gonzales, 21, twice U.S. amateur champion and current aspirant to Kramer's professional throne. Said Kramer: "He'll melt off some of that weight, and every pound will make it tougher on me. Pancho didn't get enough work...
...tall, gaunt man stood up before a convention of farm-equipment dealers in Washington last week and made what he thought would be a scarcely noticed speech at a barely noticed meeting. Instead it cost him his job. The man was Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, titular head of the President's economic advisers. He began his speech by skeptically questioning a glittering prediction by his economist colleague, Leon Keyserling, of a $350 billion national income by 1958, with a $4,000 minimum a year for almost every family. Mr. Truman later used this as the basis...
...gaunt, wrinkled left-winger named James Imbrie, running for governor on the ticket of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, decided to fight the law. Imbrie refused to take the oath, went to court to prevent the state from noting the fact on the ballot...