Word: haggard
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...suppose the subject of my book traces to Tristram Shandy and to Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. But I am perfectly happy being considered just a part of the crime genre. I write as I read, for pleasure. At present I am making my way through Rider Haggard's She -- for the 15th time...
...priest from Joliet, Ill., was about to be released by Islamic Jihad, the shadowy Shi'ite Muslim terrorist group that had abducted him in January 1985. His captors claimed that Jenco, who suffers from a heart condition, was being freed because of "deteriorating health" and released photos of the haggard priest in a red shirt. But their hostage seemed reasonably fit when found by Lebanese police the next morning in the Bekaa Valley...
...other jokes are haggard, forced and stupid. Jokes about nerdy guys trying to get marijuana went out with the polyester leisure suit. And chuckles about working women who are incurably shy of men ended after Dinah Shore finally got Cary Grant to marry her on the silver screen...
Adele is in the cramped kitchen, slicing leftover turkey to the beat of a Merle Haggard cassette. The sideboards groan with jars of jelly beans, Tootsie Rolls and beef jerky from the shop that her father Bob manages in a nearby office building. Molly's brother Kelly, 19, has cleared space on the kitchen table to do homework for his computer studies at the local community college. Beth, 21, is in the back of the house washing her blond hair. The whole place scans like Steven Spielberg's idea of suburban paradise...
...profited handsomely from his tale, complained the original, but where was the fee for the man who had lived it? A Swazi warrior named M'hlopekazi was more succinct. He was the inspiration for Umslopogaas, the intrepid tribesman of King Solomon's Mines. The hunting knife that H. Rider Haggard had presented was all very well. But, M'hlopekazi protested vainly, there was something an African guide would find far more valuable in the veld: royalties...