Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi positions on the cliffs overhead rained bullets into the boat, wounding or killing half of its men. Eventually, after shifting from boat to boat and surviving a heavy dive-bombing, Munro got ashore for a few minutes. He arrived in his London office in a torn, bloody uniform, haggard from three days and nights without sleep, and wrote for twelve hours straight, keeping himself awake with benzedrine tablets...
...remembers Field, haggard from lack of sleep and several days under fire, standing on a Monsard road one day. coolly talking to infantrymen while shells fell all around...
James M. Landis made public last week his second formal report on the thankless job he took over last February-running the Office of Civilian Defense. Six months ago he had been gaunt; now he was haggard. But after those six months of dogged work, in an office which last winter housed the worst of all Washington's administrative messes, he could report some accomplishments. OCD was now functioning up to the full measure of its authority, advising State and city defense councils how to combat gas, destruction, fire, panic, and giving them the necessary material...
...Florida were reports that confusion and mismanagement still hampered anti-submarine operations, in two instances causing a one-hour lag between the moment a U-boat was spotted and the time bombers or ships were dispatched to the scene. Meanwhile, there was no letup in the stream of haggard survivors into eastern ports, each with his tale...
...delirium tremens fatal? Does whiskey drinking cause cirrhosis of the liver? Will too much liquor cause insanity? These and other fascinating questions are answered in Alcohol Explored (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), a new popular book published last fortnight by famed Yale Physiologists Howard Wilcox Haggard, Elvin Morton Jellinek. Highlights...