Word: waxen
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...bring you up to date-take out a few hairs, add a wrinkle." Perhaps the only personage whose image had improved was Mary Queen of Scots. Her biographer, Lady Antonia Fraser, posed before a replica of the Queen's executioner in a duplicate of the costume that the waxen Mary wears in the museum...
...reporting. His words wept at the barbarism of battle. "The com pany had gone on [toward Teruel] and this was the phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy weather and then baked in the sun." Hemingway reported so well and so movingly from...
...Sankt Pauli's 13,000 inhabitants, fully 3,000 are prostitutes. In the 200 yards of Herbertstrasse alone, 20 bordellos stand perfumed cheek by painted jowl, while round-the-clock shifts of whores sit waxen and wooden-faced be hind show windows. Elaborately coifed transvestites in spike heels wobble lumpily along the side streets, brushing shoulders with stewbums in cowboy boots and pale-faced hoods with patent-leather hair. At the Hippodrom, on a lurid avenue appropriately named Grosse Freiheit, bored horses trot in a circle as equally bored equestriennes strip while balancing on their backs. Along the Raper...
...last week, and instantly the nation's favorite game became face watching. The face, of course, belonged to Charles de Gaulle, and what his countrymen saw in it depended partly on their politics. The anti-Gaullist weekly L'Express, for instance, carried a photo of a worn, waxen-faced man whose eyes were more deeply pouched than ever. Gaullists found him leaner than before his April prostate operation but fit enough to serve for years and years in the Elysée Palace. And those who viewed him without any political prism saw a man surprisingly vigorous after...
...magic. In New Delhi, a Socialist deputy was hooted down in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) by angry Congress Party members for asking: "Is it democratic for an ailing Prime Minister with a shaky, inaudible voice and trembling feet to reply to questions?" Through the uproar, a waxen, drowsy figure sat hunched over on the front row of the horseshoe-shaped chamber; about the only thing reminiscent of the dynamic Nehru of old was the red rose in his white tunic...