Word: gauntness
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...years pass in a silence punctuated only by official notifications: "It is not considered possible . . ." "Your complaint has been forwarded to . . ." Occasionally Comrade Lopatkin is summoned for discussion, is shunted from one official to another. Repeatedly he comes close to success only to be tossed into the street again. Gaunt, shabby, despairing, Lopatkin struggles on, ignoring hints and muttered warnings, until one day he finds himself sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. "It was as though he had been thrown overboard into the sea at night, while the brightly lighted ship . . . sailed on, leaving him behind...
Calluses of Conscience. The most powerful man in Syria was saying nothing whatsoever. He is gaunt, 43-year-old Akram...
...brashly: "You're Sugar Ray, aren't you? Well, I can beat you." The blunt greeting started a fast friendship. "Althea used to come over to our apartment and sit on the floor," says Sugar Ray's wife, Edna Mae. "She was unhappy; she had a gaunt build and she felt that she was the least good-looking girl she knew. She had insecurity and went into herself. She used to talk wild. I tried to make her feel she could be something...
...first word must be a word of thanks to God, who blessed us by providing the opportunity .to visit America." The gaunt, grey man had been in the U.S. before: the worn black suit he was wearing had been given him by a grateful congregation in New Brunswick, N.J., where he had preached in 1947. But that had been long ago, before his years in Communist jails, years of poverty and isolation. Last week Bishop Lajos Ordass, Lutheran Primate of Hungary, looked with emotion on the free world again, but begged U.S. newsmen to remember in quoting him that...
...snow receded, Steeves packed some strawberries and a couple of fish, finally made it over Granite Pass and came down into Granite Basin. One day last week one of the season's first camping parties heard the clatter of rock, looked up to see a heavily bearded, gaunt figure (he had lost about 30 lbs.) sitting on a rock munching strawberries. The campers shook their heads at his story, reckoned that he had walked about 100 miles, eased him on a horse to the nearest ranger station. From there he went out into the rauous notoriety that civilization reserves...