Word: gauntness
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...months ago. The German people, expecting invasion, harried by bombs and grieving over the dead in Russia, resented the Führer's reluctance to visit stricken cities or the Eastern Front, his isolation in bomb-safe Berchtesgaden with chosen aides and such infrequent visitors as gaunt Benito Mussolini...
...Treasury Catto first came into intimate contact with John Maynard Keynes, another wartime Treasury advisor. Chance gave the two men adjoining offices in the old Board of Trade building. To the surprise of all they became fast friends. The gaunt, six-foot Keynes had an unparalleled intellectual equipment. Plump, Pickwickian, smiling Lord Catto had the practical experience which Keynes lacked. Together they made a sure-footed team - Keynes operating in the world of high theory, always able to give three solutions to any problem; Catto insisting that only one could be chosen. When the time came for Britain to propose...
Douglas MacArthur II, 34, nephew of the General, son-in-law of Kentucky's Alben Barkley, is a gaunt young diplomat who used to be secretary of the U.S. Embassy at Vichy under Admiral William D. Leahy, now President Roosevelt's personal military adviser. While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis...
Presumably, peppery U.S. Minister David Gray (uncle, by marriage, to Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt) stepped down a corridor in Dublin's Leinster House, entered Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's office. Presumably, gaunt, U.S.-born "Dev" scanned the note handed him, hopped good & mad from his chair, sputtering more sparks than the fire on his hearth...
...after all its fierceness With the Marines at Tarawa ends quietly, with one of the most powerful shots it records. The marines are trooping back from battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt man, his face drawn with sleeplessness and a sense of death, glances up. His eyes reveal both his lack of essential hostility and his profound, decent resentment of the camera's intrusion. Just as he leaves the picture he makes a face, as a father might make a face...