Word: gauntness
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...Ayres, onetime cinema glamor boy, now a gaunt and grizzled chaplain's aide at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, decided that he had found what he had always wanted. The former "Dr. Kildare"* plans to enter a seminary after the Avar, eventually preach from a Congregational pulpit. Said he: "I want to continue this work, God willing...
...white hair and beard have thinned; the furrows of nigh 74 years line the veld-weathered face that Frans Hals might have painted. But the pale blue eyes are tirelessly alert. The thinning figure, rather gaunt now, slippered and with a trace of a stoop, moves briskly...
...vast plain , of Honan, gaunt Chinese farmers watched the enemy tanks crush their fat grain, watched the enemy horsemen feed their mounts on ripe wheat...
...went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...
...young men, the U.S. is sweeping back across the Pacific. Victory lies ahead. Some day in the not too distant future the humiliation of the Philippines will be avenged. Wainwright and his soldiers wait. If they live they will learn that the nation has not forgotten the Philippines' gaunt and ghostly...