Word: gauntness
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Like Babe Ruth, gaunt and gainly Gunder Hägg has become popular with Swedish newsmen because of his ability to call his shots in advance. Last summer, during a track meet in Stockholm's Stadion, he announced that he would break the world's record for the mile the next...
...Until we claim again the ghastly remnants of its last gaunt garrison, we can but stand humble supplicants before Almighty...
...your imagination run not, Bill. Imagine that instead of muddy, gaunt lacrosse fields, you see acres and acres of golden wheat waving in the breeze, row after row of corn, patch after patch of tomatoes, and whatever else might grow in patches. And in every acre a sunburned, freckled Ph.D., toiling with scythe...
...musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, made his first reputation as a conductor of the London Philharmonic and of the Imperial Grand Theater of Moscow, in 1909 toured the applauding U.S. in the dual role of pianist...
...tepid resolve was miles behind the temper of the British people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...