Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harm. At Transport House, Labor Party headquarters in London's Smith Square, only one top leader put in an appearance to take in firsthand a night long story of setbacks. Worn and haggard from a campaign that brought him back with 2,000 fewer votes in his own constituency of Walthamstow West, Labor's Clement Attlee at 72 was a sad figure, his face bereft of its usual suggestion of tart strength, his hands poked disconsolately into the pockets of his raincoat. His own career as party leader was now in jeopardy. This was the first time since...
Most of the diners take little heed of their European surroundings, but still add to the atmosphere. These are the section men with beret and moustache; Cliffites with black sweaters, pony-tails, and haggard looks; a grad student who sits in the corner reading a letter that came par avion; the women who drops in to say "Comment allezvous?"; the chef's daughter Monique who philosophizes in the French-English combination of a six-year-old; and the Freshman out to prove he passed the language requirement by ordering a pineapple tart and a hot chocolate "like a native...
...mathematics class was over, and the haggard, pale instructor gathered up his papers. One of the boys approached him and asked for the foreign stamp on a letter that lay on the desk. As the teacher started to oblige, the boy had an afterthought: "Please, would you give me the whole envelope with your name on it? It will be worth lots of money some day." Even in children's minds, Henri Dubois, 37, mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name...
...Calm & Polite." Looking haggard and erect, Chancellor Adenauer faced not only his Bundestag but a television audience. "Into our hands," said der Alte, "is placed the decision by which to end the epoch of European confusion and wars . . . Let us respond in a way we can justify in the eyes of Germany and the world...
...Retreat. A month ago, as he had done for many summers, he and his wife Francesca moved into their summer chalet near the tiny, Alpine hamlet of Sella. At 73, De Gasperi was worn and haggard. His heart was tired. He was ordered to rest, but he continued anxiously to write and phone Christian Democratic leaders in Rome. He was increasingly distressed by France's attitude toward the EDC he had helped create. One day last week he had a slight heart attack...