Word: gauntness
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...room of London's Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest in its history...
Inside the bar, gaunt-faced and intent, with his wife beside him, Defendant Alger Hiss, charged with perjury, watched the conflict between his spectacular lawyer and the witness who would not be shaken...
...Lying Was Easy." That afternoon when Chambers first appeared in court-a chubby, bland-faced little man in a dark blue suit and a black tie-the quiet was broken by excited babble from the spectators. Chambers did not seem to hear. He stared without expression at gaunt, handsome Alger Hiss and his decorous, greying wife, Priscilla. He seated himself in the witness chair, took the oath, fixed his eyes on the ceiling toward the back of the room and, in a low, even voice, began his long story...
...annual convention at Strasbourg last week, France's Catholic, middle-of-the-road M.R.P. chose a new president. He was Georges Bidault, one of the party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...