Word: gauntness
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...event of the day was a 2,500-meter race for "women aces," featuring 40 French entries and seven Russians. The Russian entries fell into two types: the gaunt, harassed and rangy (like Champion Irene Zaitseva), and those built like truck drivers (two of them were, in fact, truck drivers...
Enough for All. Now gaunt, grey and ailing, Morgenthau has hired researchers to sift and summarize his giant diary. Last week one of them, Jonathan Grossman, a young (31) history instructor at New York's City College, gave the American Historical Association some revelations from the early years...
...talk about Britain's paganism, and thought it must be provoked by a genuine interest in religion. They proved to be right. So many readers wrote about "J.W." that the Mirror looked around for the right man to answer him and start a religious column. The choice: tall, gaunt, humorless Sir Richard Acland...
...just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time. But only gaunt Damon Runyon, suffering from cancer, gallstones and cirrhosis of the liver, had known how heavily he had borrowed...
...gaunt, one-armed man in his worn 50s, and he had to hold his notes close up to his eyes; age and ten years in German concentration camps had all but blinded him. When he began with a polite meine Damen und Herren, a buzz swept over the crowd of British journalists, uneasy at hearing German in a London press conference. As the speaker continued, there was more than his language to make his listeners uneasy. He was veteran Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who raised his voice on what was technically still enemy soil, and he had some blunt...