Word: haggardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopkins. No paler, no more haggard than usual, Harry Hopkins stepped to the witness chair knowing that, unlike Frankfurter and Murphy, he was going to receive a going-over. With an air of deliberate calm he lit cigaret after cigaret; inhaled deeply; exhaled slowly; looked saturninely at his questioners from lowered brows; stroked his jaw; hunched his shoulders; thrust out his chin-a homely figure...
...traditional style, Broadway, after a haggard week-before-Christmas, had a full-to-bursting holiday week. One matinee day accumulated, around Manhattan, 681 standees, biggest matinee box office since 1929. The period was crammed with openings, three of them in the nature of comebacks...
Next morning, worried, haggard Columnist Broun (who had approved the offending resolution) shambled to the platform, apologized for Mr. Watson's "clumsy wording" and declared the document didn't mean what it said, its denunciation did not apply to correspondents. Mr. Broun concluded: "But I do not except any publisher˜not a single one!" One Piece. To keep C.I.O.'s 41 national unions, 675 locals and 3,787,877 claimed members all in one piece, John Lewis depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board...
...Howard Wilcox Haggard, director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, deplores drunken driving, believes that a combination of "science, law and common sense . . . [will] diminish alcoholic motor fatalities." In The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Haggard and assistants Leon A. Greenberg and Louis H. Cohen held up their end of the combination and offered legal advice to police, simple physiological advice to drivers...
...below 0.5 milligram per cubic centimeter (achieved by the highball, Martini or three beers), even the most sensitive drinker displays no ill effects. Above a concentration of 1.5 mgms. every one is drunk. Between these rates lie in dividual variations of sullenness, hilarity, recklessness and melancholy. Hence, Dr. Haggard proposed that police set a stand ard of 0.5 mgm. as the "arbitrary dividing line between sobriety and an appreciable influence of liquor...