Word: gauntness
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...beginning it had been a different story. Then the Führer graciously opened German ranks for non-German volunteers who wanted to help in the mass extermination of Communism. Gaunt, gimpy little Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels cunningly stressed racial and religious differences to realize the Führer's vision of allied legions swarming from Europe's four corners...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
...gaunt, dog-tired Sumner Welles fell the task of summing up the U.S. position, of agreeing to a declaration that only "recommended" that the Americas break with the Axis, instead of tossing into Axis teeth a 21-voiced cry of defiance and scorn. But so far as they had gone the American republics had gone together...
Paris' Eiffel Tower is a gaunt, startling skeleton of bare iron bones which hypersensitive esthetes have often called "a horrible thing ... a monster of the imagination." But ever since it was finished in 1889, the 984-foot tower has been jealously adored as a symbol of Paris. It has been visited by 18 millions. It has traveled worldwide by post card, is clearly imprinted on the mind's eye of a large part of the world's population. It has inspired countless little boys playing with sets of Meccano...
Philip Hammon Parrish, "editor of the editorial page," who is the youngest of the three (45). Sawed-off, gaunt-faced, paunchy, bushy-haired Editor Parrish writes about international and U.S. politics, relaxes at home by talking the same subjects with his shoes off. Author of two books on Northwest history, he is the only one of the three who went to college (but he has no diploma of any sort; he never graduated from a high school). As editor of a page printed in small type, he believes "the editors of the country have been driven into big type...