Word: haggardly
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...there are advantages for both sexes. It's like liberation for both, and not one at the expense of the other." Getting the majority of men to see those advantages, never mind seize them, may take a while. Down in the juke joints, the boys are listening to Merle Haggard sing a tune called Are the Good Times Really Over, a litany of wistful memories from "back when the country was strong." The song yearns for a time "when a girl could still cook and still would." Those boys may not be able to get a hot meal...
...completely confident of her position, completely in command of herself. The personal traits that have made her so many political enemies?her combative nature, her refusal to bend to indecision or doubt?had singularly suited her to fulfilling the role of a wartime Prime Minister. General Galtieri may look haggard and Foreign Secretary Pym troubled, but Thatcher, close up, showed not a bit of strain. Her firm, clear voice ringing through the House of Commons, she defended her position while f the rows of Tories behind her rumbled their approval...
...Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land. It is a long road. Elections are only the first step on the road to democracy." But few of the 2,000 or so faces in the square showed any belief that their future was still in their hands. As the haggard President left, the small village
...resurfaced to tell a harrowing tale. He was kidnaped by Communist guerrillas and held in a mountain hideout in the Sierra Madre, he said, and then rescued by intelligence units of the armed forces after a brief clash. At a press conference at a military base in Manila, a haggard and frightened-looking Manotoc declared that "there's definitely no truth" to charges that the Marcos family had been involved in his kidnaping...
...heard that, he really picked up." "As an entertainer, I'd like to be known just as Melvin Dum-mar-without Howard Hughes," says the former gas-station owner from Cedar City, Utah. Dummar, 37, vaulted out of obscurity after he claimed that in 1967 he befriended a haggard hitchhiker in the Nevada desert, who later turned out to be the eccentric megamillionaire...