Word: gauntness
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Grabbed Officers. The blowup was triggered on New Year's Eve in Caracas; Brigadier General Hugo Fuentes, the tall, gaunt commander of Venezuela's 20,000-man ground forces, was on his way to the President's reception when secret police arrested him. Grabbed at the same time was Colonel Jesús Maria Castro León, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. An agent of the internal spy net, the Seguridad Nacional, posing as an air force officer, had tabbed Colonel Castro León as leader of the plotting airmen, and General Fuentes head...
...synthesis of such a diversity of subjective and objective elements, however, is only partially successful. The rhythm and consistently gaunt imagery give the poem a great amount of tonal unity, but there is little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color...
...judge was identified as gaunt, greying Judge Raulston Schoolfield, 51, unsuccessful 1954 candidate for governor against Frank Clement and currently president of two separate Tennessee segregation societies. Six years ago 13 teamsters, including Chattanooga Local 515's President Glenn W. Smith and Secretary-Treasurer Hubert L. Boling, were indicted for dynamiting and arson during organizing drives. The 13 came for arraignment before Judge Schoolfield, who carefully studied the evidence against them and decided it was "good." In fact, testified former Court Officer James W. West, Judge Schoolfield "seemed enthused" at the prospect-possibly because earlier the Teamsters Union...
Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
Arthur Lewis, the master who returns unexpectedly, is respectable if slightly over-done. Judith Gilmartin, the pretty widow looking for a Spanish husband, performs with a coy grace. Bob LaCrosse is adequate for a small part; Leslie Buncher falls off his timing; and William Meador, the gaunt suspicious gamester, stumbles on his lines occasionally, and unfortunately calcifies a vital role...