Word: gauntness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...James Robert Orr was finishing a rugged five-year tour of duty sowing the Protestant gospel on the stony soil of Brazil's Parana state, near the Argentine border. Now the gaunt, 59-year-old Baptist was heading home for Canada. With his wife and their three youngest children, he jeeped into Laranjeiras do Sul (pop. 2,000) and went to a local doctor for certificates of vaccination. Told that the Orrs had all been vaccinated six or seven years earlier, the doctor perfunctorily issued "certificates of immunity...
After 14 nations signed the Geneva accord establishing Laotian neutrality last month. Red Prince Souphanouvong promised to release the U.S. prisoners held by his Communist Pathet Lao. Last week five gaunt and bearded men stumbled off a twin-engined Soviet plane at Vientiane's Wattay airport. They had been imprisoned for 15 months or more - and looked...
...most powerful force in the A.L.N. is former Army Chief of Staff Colonel Houari Boumedienne, 37, a gaunt, chainsmoking ascetic who wears no insignia on his ill-fitting khaki uniform. One of the best-educated men in the F.L.N., Boumedienne attended the two finest Moslem universities, al-Azhar in Cairo and Zi-touna in Tunis, is the editor of a military review. El Djiech (The Army). At present, Boumedienne backs Ben Bella, but he wants to make the army the backbone of the Algerian nation. Boumedienne opposes close economic ties with France as a form of-"neo-colonialism," is against...
Young Hal Holbrook, despite a dime-store beard, conveys the old age of John of Gaunt in both body and voice, though there is more to be had from his farewell speech, as grand a paean to England as ever was penned. As staged here, Gaunt walks slowly off stage in apparent good health; no sooner is the last of his gown out of sight in the wings when Northumberland (solidly played by Will Geer) bounds back into view to report Gaunt's death. Now Shakespeare is partly to blame, for he wrote only eight lines between Gaunt's last...
...many years a U.S. citizen, Julio (pronounced hoo-lee-oh) de Diego is a gaunt, intense man, who suffers from the burden of being known to gossip-column readers only as a former husband of Gypsy Rose Lee. As an artist, he fits into no easy pigeonhole, and is far from what is commonly considered to be the mainstream of modern art. He is a traditionalist at heart-and one of the best-yet he is not afraid to pursue an eccentric notion wherever it may lead. Last week a De Diego show that opened at Manhattan's Landry...