Word: haggards
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...speech text and went to work. Pencil in hand, wetting his big thumb from time to time as he turned the pages, he read the speech over to himself, speaking softly, gesturing slightly. In the unflattering light of the little reading lamp, his weary face looked seamed and haggard. As he read he would jot down little interpolations, asides and personal stage directions. This was the old ; experienced actor, going through the final" rehearsal. Much depended on this speech...
Last week the haggard ist Marine Division got some help from fresh units of the 81st Army Division, which landed, pushed through 4.000 yds., then encircled Bloody Nose. Peleliu's collapse was only a matter of time, might come in the typical banzai charge wherein all Japs are killed or kill themselves...
Early one morning last week some 70 haggard German soldiers climbed out of a sand pit on the edge of Minsk's ancient Jewish cemetery, whose gravestones glared at them in silent reproach. The Red armies had overrun Minsk four days before, and were now rolling on far to the west, but the 70 Germans did not know that. They thought Minsk was still held by the Wehrmucht. When they started into the city, the Russian garrison mowed them down to the last...
Swedes saw frail Professor Sakimura, unshaven and unkempt, wandering through Stockholm's parks, sometimes slumped in dejection on a bench, or stretched in fitful sleep behind a hedge. Last week the struggle with his conscience ended. Swedes saw four Jap officials hustling haggard Professor Sakimura to a waiting Berlin plane...
...ninth month of the siege the Germans broke through. Step by step, the haggard defenders retreated to the coast. The women & children boarded the last ships out. When the wounded were taken off the beaches, they sobbed and clutched handfuls of dirt-the ground of Sevastopol...