Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...
...felt it was a large, bad impulse. Ursula, still game after hectic questioning, haggard, her impulsive uncombed head under a badly tied turban, was freed on $1,000 bail. The near future held for her, first, the star witness part in an approaching Federal narcotics case. Those of the ex-bandsman's jive-plucking friends that could be reached mostly made the same comment: "Mike always was a damn good guitar player...
...City Falls. More & more, bright plywood replaced Warsaw's windowpanes. In the food lines, faces were sleepless and remote, and bitter quarrels broke out. Rulka saw a dead, horse in the street, stripped of its meat save for the haggard mask and stockings of hide. In a patch of grass at a street crossing, she found a little grave. At the foot was a glass with , two or three flowers in it. At the head was an amateur cross to which was thumbtacked a visiting card...
...score of survivors and set sail in the general direction of South America. Within a few days men with wounds got gangrene. Several died. Squalls nearly swamped the rest, but the rain was welcome. On the 26th day they saw a moth and two butterflies. Five days later 15 haggard men stumbled ashore, the only known survivors of the anonymous U.S. merchantman which had destroyed one of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder's deadly raiders...
...exactly nothing. But when you leave the banks of the river the ground war suddenly becomes very grim drama. Down muddy, green-walled tracks stagger wounded men, the blood still running from beneath grimy bandages, their green uniforms stained grey with mud, their faces lined, insect-bitten, haggard, sometimes fever-yellowed. Men with torn limbs lie, eyes closed, on crude log stretchers, borne on the muscled shoulders of kindly, perpetually plodding, splayfooted natives. A native walks beside each man, holding a huge green banana leaf to keep the burning sun from the head of the soldier, who has found that...