Word: gauntness
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...expenses of the Government?' To hell with that! I want to know how I am going to pay my own expenses." Many who could remember the hey-dey of a dashing Prince of Wales were reminded of their own advancing years when, in Paris, the gaunt, slightly bent Duke of Windsor awoke one morning last week and found himself 60 years...
...rounds ahead, handsome, young (23) Gene Littler, last year's amateur champion only lately turned pro, was a nervous two strokes in the lead. Pressing hard to hang on, defending Champion Ben Hogan was in a tie for second. His running mate was Ed Furgol, 37, a tall, gaunt pro from St. Louis' Westwood Club with easily the most distinctive style in the tournament...
Last week, in front of a freshman dormitory, up went Pattison's second piece of campus sculpture: a gaunt and gawky 11-foot welded-steel abstraction of a horse. Student reaction was immediate-and violent. Within a few hours hay was stuffed into the horse's mouth, manure was piled under its rear end, balloons and confetti were attached to the exposed steel ribs. Three times during the night, students built bonfires under the sculpture, succeeded only in scorching the paint...
...black Packard with Ireland's Prime Minister slouched wearily in the front seat beside a tense driver; close behind came a darting blue Ford with its complement of sleepy detectives. In district after district where the caravan stopped, farmers and townsfolk clustered round for a look at the gaunt, aging (71) hero who had won political freedom for their nation in 1922 and guided its destiny almost constantly ever since. They listened respectfully as Eamon de Valera, now almost blind, once again outlined his austere plans for Ireland's future. They cheered him with the old campaign...
...Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that, when they meet with Liu, "it is like throwing together a heap of steel slabs." Characteristics: gaunt and tall, with sharp features and piercing eyes; rarely smiles, has what his second wife calls "an inexorable heart...