Word: gauntness
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Some time later a farmer was milking his cows when a gaunt, pleasant man with flowing hair, wearing a damaged white suit, stepped into his barn and said, "Good morning!" This was Jean Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, twin brother of Balloonist Auguste Piccard. Once a chemist for Hercules Powder Co., Jean Piccard is now in the aeronautical engineering department of the University of Minnesota, usually manages _ to find advertisers who will pay for his flights. This particular morning he made a landing of sorts after a flight sponsored by the Rochester Kiwanis Club in a unique apparatus...
...None of the men . . . were able to sit up," she said. "There was one man who looked gaunt and haggard, who had a man lying on top of him. I got his head on my lap. I noticed his face was getting cold and black. He motioned toward his pocket, and I reached and got a cigaret for him. But it was covered with blood. He said, 'Never mind, you're a good kid, carry on.' He started to say 'Mother' but then he stiffened up. ... I said to the officer at the door...
Enter the Duke and Duchess of York. "The Duchess of York does not think she has a sense of humor." Where is John of Gaunt? Where is Bolingbroke...
...Africa's General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Australia's Joseph Aloysius Lyons and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King under the 1931 Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera, who refused to attend. In Dublin's St. Stephen's Green day after the Coronation a Republican bomb blew the 178-year-old statue of George II off his horse, ripped off both bronze arms...
Near Stooping Oak, Tenn., on the Cumberland Plateau, newshawks last month found a tall, gaunt, 45-year-old named Jackson Whitlow who was daily growing gaunter from a fast to which he said the Lord had called him early in March. His face blotched from his "stomach trouble," Jackson Whitlow daily hoed the vegetable patch behind his cabin, seemed to have no plans beyond continuing his fast, accepting at its end some earthly bounty which the Lord had in mind...