Word: haggard
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...morning after his kidnapers had released him, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy was haggard and tired. Because his wrists had been bound during much of his 49-hour ordeal, one hand was still numb. But he was a newsman with a story. So he sat down and wrote a 4,000-word account of what it had been like in captivity. The Associated Press immediately moved the story on its national wire in time to make Sunday editions round the country...
...news continued to engulf the White House, Nixon made a show of tending to more important matters. He went on television to express satisfaction in announcing the negotiated separation of Egyptian and Israeli forces on the Suez front (see THE WORLD). But he looked haggard, and phrased his thoughts uncertainly in a quavering voice. He took to radio to discuss the energy crisis. He called in photographers and reporters as he discussed his State of the Union message plans with House Republican Leader Rhodes...
...efforts, the gritty good humor of President Nixon at his 61st birthday party was belied by his appearance. His complexion was pallid, and he looked haggard and weary. Clearly, the two weeks already spent in San Clemente had not, as hoped, begun to refresh his spirits or restore his vigor. The evidence of the President's weariness came as a particular jolt to some of his staffers: they literally had not seen him since his arrival...
...Before I go any further you have to understand that the leading figure of country music last year was not Donna Fargo, nor even Merle Haggard, but a black man named Charlie Pride. That raised newsmagazine eyebrows and so pretty many people probably heard about...
...School takes itself too seriously, and the haggard, bleary-eyed faces around me looked like they'd been saving up laughter about themselves for a long, long time. And for that audience, the evening was blissful. Small-scale Harvard drama always has a safety mechanism: If your lack of professionalism starts to show, just laugh it up, enjoy yourself on stage, and the audience--if it has any reason to feel involved--will forget they're watching a bunch of clods and chuckle along magnanimously. It's critical immunity...