Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Baird himself answered when I knocked at his door. Dressed in black shirt and pants, pale and haggard, he invited me into his single motel room. Open suitcases and stray newspaper articles lay on the floor and beds. Until last week he had been sleeping on floors in the rooms of BU students. Then his lawyer, Joseph Balliro, who's defending him without fee, grew exasperated with communications problems, since Baird was moving around so much, and put up the $100 for a week's lease. When I spoke to Baird, the lease had expired three days...
...whenever they should, but for the first time both are unafraid to appear unattractive and even unsympathetic in roles that show them at play and at bay. Like them, Divorce American Style is flatteringly made up, but around the vivacious smiles are the lines of tension and the occasional haggard look of truth...
Whether King Hussein in Jordan and the Baathist regime in Syria can do as well in the wake of disaster remains to be seen. Hussein, unshaven and haggard in battle dress after three days without sleep, made his own public reckoning. But it was the plain speaking of a candid and courageous man. Israel had won "with overwhelming strength," he said, adding, his eyes glistening, "I hope people all over the world will recognize the efforts this country made to defend its soil...
...using less spacious vistas, concentrating on shallow scenes that he calls "bas-reliefs." The themes that concern him are loneliness, racialism, death and youth. Lunch shows people packed closely at a Chock Full O'Nuts-style counter, munching in their respective dream worlds. Landscape with Figures shows haggard young people crouched in a huge honeycomb, and is "my way of protesting the situation kids are in now. I feel sorry for them with the draft, the pressures to conform...
...have plans, you don't cancel plans." He did a little more to widen the credibility chasm by insisting that "I didn't get weary" during his Asia trip, even though hundreds of newsmen who accompanied him noted that he looked puffy-eyed and haggard. "Most of this weariness," said the President, in one of several barbed cracks at the press, "was some of you engaging in introspection...