Word: haggards
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...when organized enemy resistance on Guam had ended, 10,971 Japs had been buried (along with 1,214 U.S. casualties) and the disorganized enemy had been driven into the hills. To the folks back home a communiqué announced that Guam had been "secured." But to the bearded, haggard soldiers and marines who had done the securing, that did not mean that the fighting was over-not by a long shot...
...clear days the U.S. troops, haggard and green with fatigue, got help from the fighter-bombers. On such days they could see the towers and chimneys of Cologne, the great city on the Rhine. It looked as far away as the moon...
...sickened with malaria, scurvy, dysentery, collapsed from hunger and sheer fatigue. Food and ammunition had to be carried to them by air. The ghostly jungles closed around them. Snipers potted them and fanatical Japs jumped them from trees. Corpses of haggard-faced, bearded U.S. soldiers bobbed in the flooded rivers. Officers as well as men dropped like flies. Brigadier General Hanford MacNider was wounded. Entrenched on high, dry ground around Buna, the Japs held...
...story on the forgotten front in Italy, and one that weary, haggard soldiers had intimately known for over a year-rain, mud, wind, high rivers, all but impassable roads and mountains. And always there were the determined, skillful Germans, fighting with professional craft...
...more than the Dionnes at first weighing), each was handed to an assistant, who put the infant in an incubator. Mrs. Cirminello, who had been told she would have twins, was surprised. Mr. Cirminello, an SEC analyst, who knew all along it would be quadruplets, was haggard...