Word: gauntness
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After an eleven-hour delay, the first prisoners freed by the Viet Cong in the South arrived, looking more gaunt and dazed from their captivity than the men from the North. Douglas Kent Ramsey, a civilian adviser captured in 1966, walked off the plane in his prisoner's pajamas and with a subdued, satisfied smile, bowed to welcoming officers-an oddly Oriental touch...
Faye Dunaway, the mother, has the gaunt and skittish look of someone who has not quite fully recovered from a recent famine. Frank Langella, the husband, is constantly petulant, like a male model who has just had his week's bookings canceled. He is, however, supposed to portray an author, and spends some time looking at slides representing various facets of modern architecture. Dunaway apparently does not comprehend the exact nature of his work, for when he seizes her rudely one night and tries to have his way with her on a table top, she spurns him with...
George Wallace, gaunt and subdued after almost eight weeks in the hospital with gunshot wounds, still paralyzed below the waist, made good his determination to get to Miami Beach and see what ideological leverage he could apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers...
Wallace, though gaunt, was alert as he met with the press following a meeting at which he reassured the Alabama Delegation of his intention to support the California challenge and to press for a toned down platform tonight...
...research and information fund" was set up to pay for the murder. Albert Pass, a Kentucky official who is a member of the U.M.W.'s international executive board, was in charge of the operation. He contacted Huddleston, who recruited his son-in-law Paul Gilly, 38, a gaunt, sallow-faced house painter who was only too eager to do the job. Gilly, in turn, hired two other lean and lethal Appalachians who had been in and out of scrapes with the law for most of their lives...