Word: gauntness
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...Corregidor were lodged. "These are my own men and I am one of them," he said. "I owe them a lot. I promised I would return, and I'm long overdue. . . " Down through a double line of cots the General strode, pausing at bedside after bedside. Down the gaunt faces ran the unashamed tears of fighting men - now the wasted victims of malnutrition and dysentery. Said MacArthur: "I tried to get here as soon as I could. I'm going to give you all the medical attention you need. And then you're going home." Then...
...happening now in the northwest,. where the sky on past nights had been lit with pale flashes of gunfire. Over a radio improvised from scraps and toothpaste tubes they had caught fragmentary reports. They knew that MacArthur-who would "always seem to see the vision of the grim, gaunt, and ghostly men"-must have returned. Inside their bamboo and barbed-wire stockade, they thought with mixed hope and despair of their own chances of escape...
...distant cannonading grew louder, drew nearer. Over the gaunt men hung the dread that the enemy, in fury, might yet decide to finish them off. Caught between the lines, they might even be wiped out by U.S. artillery or by bombers. Even if MacArthur knew they were there, how could he effect their rescue...
...little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless the Americans! God bless all the Americans...
...many respects. Both have been severely racked by illness. The clinical history of Harry Hopkins would alone fill a book, and his friends talk as freely of his illnesses as they do of his other characteristics, like chain-smoking, his fierce pride, his easy rationalizations, or the lean, gaunt frame on which his clothes hang with scarecrow looseness...