Word: gauntness
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...addition to his regular routine. In an audience with a group of doctors, the Pope said that he was not yet fully recovered, but must keep to his tasks. As he spoke, the camera caught Pius in a remarkable picture (see cut), showing his face cheerful but even more gaunt than usual...
Over the international bridge connecting Communist China with the free British colony of Hong Kong last week walked two gaunt, hollow-eyed newsmen. After 18 months' imprisonment, NBC Correspondent Richard Applegate and I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon were released by the Chinese Communists. With them was a U.S. merchant marine officer, Ben Krasner, captured with them while they were cruising on Applegate's sailboat Kert in international waters west of Hong Kong...
...long, villagers, priests, Cabinet ministers, Senators, and children from a nearby orphanage thronged the mountain road to pass by the wooden bed where lay the gaunt old figure. Pope Pius sent personal condolences; so did Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, interrupting a U.S. vacation, flew back to Rome to represent President Eisenhower at the funeral. Said she: "America lost a good friend and Italy a great statesman...
Death on the Ridge. Professor Desio and his men laid Camp 1 at the foot of the Abruzzi Ridge, a gaunt rib which lances upwards towards the summit of K2. On the fearful Abruzzi, perhaps the longest continuously steep climbing ridge in the world, a man is like a fly on a wall. He must edge himself up a vertical "chimney," 100 feet high; if he grabs too hard at the rock, it crumbles in his hand...
...Gaunt, genial Doodle Harmon likes to pretend that his chief qualification for his new job is his "unprejudiced ignorance" about education. But in reality, he has already gone far with his plans for the academy's curriculum. On the technical side, cadets will start off with two months of indoctrination in everything from military drill to servicing aircraft. After that will come a three-year aircraft observer's course (355 hours on the ground, 171 in the air), which will qualify cadets as full-fledged navigators and bombardiers. In their last year, the cadets will finally start training...