Word: haggard
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...deep tan could not cover his haggard P.W. look. But he had a quick smile for the welcomers. "I feel like a million dollars," he said. "I almost sent a challenge to Rocky Marciano, I feel so good...
...honey buckets." "Mama-sans" squatted on riverbanks, pounding their washing with sticks on the wet, flat stones, while their black-haired infants slumbered on their backs. Old men with black "birdcage" hats and two-foot-long pipes squatted, low down on their haunches, in front of ruined huts. Refugees, haggard and desperate, journeyed a long road, furniture and bedding piled high on "A-frame" and head, bound for a filthy cardboard shack which they would then call home. Before entering it, they would remove their shoes...
After seeing her show last week, Mexico could understand Frida Kahlo's hard reality. And it is getting even harder. Recently, her condition has been getting worse; friends who remember her as a plump, vigorous woman are shocked by her haggard appearance. She cannot stand for more than ten minutes at a time now, and there is a threat of gangrene in one foot. But each day, Frida Kahlo still struggles to her chair to paint-even if only for a short while. "I am not sick," she says. "I am broken. But I am happy to be alive...
...Looking haggard, unshaven, and green around the axillarys, Ibis went on to charge his society brothers with "mental cruelty, sadism, and neglect. . . . All they did was laugh, laugh, laugh," he said. "And drink martinis dry martinis...
...with you in a just a minute, sir" the girl says. She looks haggard. "That will be eight-five cents, ma'am." "No, these are not tropical gold fish." "Just a minute sir, I believe you only gave me a quarter." "No, South Station is down the sheet...