Word: haggardly
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...Mikoyan felt about doing the Hungarian dirty work no outsider knows. A Briton who has lived long in Moscow says: "Mikoyan disappeared from the Moscow round from mid-October to the beginning of December. In those six weeks he aged ten years. He was drawn and haggard, and his skin was yellow when we saw him again. Instead of an old man looking young, he was an old man looking more than...
...pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand-me-down overalls. "My brothers are dead," he said quietly. "We don't know where daddy is." Haggard Dr. Cevil Clark, Cameron's only physician, trudged doggedly along muddy streets, giving shots, treating and comforting the injured-while two of his own children lay dead as Audrey's victims...
...Ecorse police station Mary's father, Edmund de Caussin Jr., 33, a technical writer for the Ford Motor Co., paced the room, calm but increasingly haggard. By morning he had all but given up hope. But De Caussin, was forming an explosive charge of thought...
...study by Yale University's Dr. Howard Haggard showed that in-plant meals cut down afternoon fatigue and help speed production. Workers who once took an hour for lunch outside can eat in half an hour inside, get off earlier at day's end. Many companies report other benefits. One Indiana steel mill said that five nearby saloons had to shut down after it opened a good cafeteria, while the Prudential Insurance Co. found that nutritional deficiencies among its office help-especially young girl workers, who leaned heavily on soda-and-cruller lunches-have almost disappeared. Chicago...
...News and Observer, disclosed, on the twelfth anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that he had withheld from newsmen certain photographs made of F.D.R. at Yalta: "It was my job to screen those pictures and to release to the press only those least marked by the deadly, haggard weariness of the commander whose face . . . had so long been a symbol of confidence." In Los Angeles, recalling that she had seen some of the censored pictures, Eleanor Roosevelt did not concur: "I do not believe that [F.D.R.] looked so bad in them...