Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, Sid McMath rushed into his office. His shirt and trousers were rumpled, his face haggard and unshaven. The reporters were waiting. McMath had two folded sheets of yellow paper in his hand. On them, he had written a statement in pencil...
...bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard and emaciated as the result of a near fatal plane crash, can hardly fail to call up visions of successful procurers you have known...
Steaks & Grog. Morgan* and his crew arrived in high spirits, having dipped into the ship's grog supply to celebrate. Unlike the haggard crews aboard other ships, the Dolphin's men were tanned, clean shaven and immaculate in shorts and blue jerseys. They boasted that they had slept eight hours a day most of the time, had never been lost for a minute. Some of them had felt a bit queasy at first, but later had dined heartily on 22 days' supply of steak, roasts, chicken, lamb curry, lobster salad and pie à la mode. They...
...Million Needles. Moische was not any more attractive than the Europe that made him. He was dark and haggard, with sunken eyes, greasy hair and a limp. Yet Moische's story was a kind of 20th Century epic...
...fatherless family moved to the grimy city of Leeds. Young Read attended a spartan city school whose only romanticism lay in the library's collection of Rider Haggard. At 15, he became a bank clerk (at ?20 a year) and a "true-blue Tory," at 17 a disciple of Alfred Tennyson and William Blake. At 22, he was swept off to World War I-stopping off long enough in London to hand a publisher his first volume of poems...