Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
Perhaps the sedate editors of the London Times had read a lot of fiction of the Rider Haggard school. Last week, as it must to all romantics, disillusion came to the Times. Its correspondent in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, cabled some stolid facts about "bush telegraphy...
Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from...
...house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets (as an errand boy for the butcher), he was usually absorbed in an adventure story-Rider Haggard or Baroness Orczy...
What sort of snarling cat had got hold of the News's tongue? Well, Miss Hayworth had refused to be interviewed, and any celebrity who did that to the News could expect to be tabbed as looking pale and haggard. Reporters don't like to be snubbed, and have their own unpleasant ways of showing it. On the other hand, in Elsa Maxwell's column last week, "Rita, of course, looked beautiful." Elsa had not been snubbed; she had lunched with Rita...