Word: gauntness
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...called an emergency meeting of the party's Central Committee to try to vote Mao out of power. But Mao got wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt, grey President as licking the boots of American imperialists; wall posters denounced him as a capitalist-lover and a traitor. Liu's wife was forced to attend Red Guard meetings, where she was expected to offer public criticism of herself and her husband...
Britain's press dubbed it "Chichysteria." The phenomenon quickly produced tea towels, bone-china mugs, picture postcards, model boat kits, jigsaw puzzles, health foods and even pink panties emblazoned with a black anchor-all in tribute to Sir Francis Chichester. The gaunt, 65-year-old mariner, whose solo circumnavigation of the globe ended last week, became the hottest commercial property in hero-starved Britain since Twiggy...
Into the Buchenwald barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat...
...Gaunt and visibly fatigued, Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd rose to defend himself last week before the Senate's Select Committee on Stand ards and Conduct. It was more than a year since Washington Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson had first accused Dodd, 59, of financial irregularities, and he seemed several years older in appearance. "I have read and heard that I betrayed my trust, that I betrayed my oath, and I tell you it has been a hard thing," said the Senator, his voice cracking occasionally. "The best thing for me has been my conscience. My conscience...
...amount to, he does not belong to the peripatetic school. Is he out bunny-hugging every night in his sports car or carousing through his clubs with Playmates on either arm? Not at all. His Mercedes-Benz sits forlornly in the garage; his clubs never see him. Lean, rather gaunt, with piercing dark eyes, he has succumbed to the work ethic. He explains that he does not want to face all the outside world's trivia?small talk, party joining?that might distract him from his work. Nor does he have the distractions of a family. Hefner was divorced from...