Word: gauntness
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...Hero of the convention was Australian Harry Bridges, gaunt, hot-eyed boss of C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen, now being investigated for deportation on the grounds that he was once a member of the Communist Party. Bridges rambled into the hall three days late, grinned happily amidst his welcome: confetti, dancing, hammerings, five minutes' yelling. N.M.U. had already gone on record against his deportation. Host Curran: "... a very distinguished citizen who has caused a great deal of concern in the National Association of Manufacturers...
...gaunt, grimy London suburb last week George Johnson Armstrong died by hanging, the first Briton executed as a traitor in World War II. A 39-year-old ship's engineer, he was charged with offering his services as a spy to the German Consul in Boston. With him were hung three alien spies. Another Briton, a woman, sentenced to hang at the same time, had her sentence commuted to 14 years imprisonment...
...pall of smoke was reported over Leningrad. A cloud of dust hid the battlefield north of the Pripet Marshes. A German reporter in a Stuka said well: "There is nothing but confusion beneath us." In those seven days one fact stood up gaunt and real as the remains of a bombed wall. The Russians admitted on the third day that they had lost 374 planes while they had shot down 381 German planes...
Chief debater against conscription was neutral Eire's gaunt Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Said he to a jammed session of the Dail Eireann: "The six counties [of Northern Ireland] are a part of Ireland. . . . No act of Parliament can alter this fact. In the six northern counties there are more than a third of the population who have vehemently protested against being cut off from the main body of the nation, who were so cut off against their own will and against the will of the majority of the whole Irish people. It would be an outrage...
...There are many signs which point to an attempt to secure the granary of the Ukraine and the oil fields of the Caucasus [both in Russia] as a German means of gaining the resources wherewith to wear down the English-speaking world." To another face in the gallery-the gaunt face of U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant-the Prime Minister addressed his most urgent words: "But, after all, everything turns on the Battle of the Atlantic, which is proceeding with growing intensity . . . the Battle . . . must be won not only in the factories and shipyards but upon the blue water...