Word: wearier
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...Cliché. Democrat Bob Wagner's regime may be tired, but it is not about to roll over and play dead. At 55, running for his fourth four-year term, the mayor looks older, wearier and pouchier than ever-but he is recognized as a real master in the art of political survival. On the day that Lindsay announced his candidacy, Wagner found himself in the position of announcing a record city budget of $3.87 billion, involving $255 million of what Wagner lamely described as "borrow now, repay later" financing. That was embarrassing, but Wagner has come back strong...
...Boulder. But viewed against the enormity of South Viet Nam's problems, Khanh-a visibly wearier man than the bouncy
...Frontier, the faces of foreign-policy officials were grimmer, paler and wearier than at any time since the Cuba missile crisis last October. White House and State Department spokesmen talked somberly of a sudden shift from thaw to freeze in the cold...
...book about Athens during its best days. A saintly Mr. Chips wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he prays nightly for help in his work ("God, make me fit to write"), seeks, in his historical research, a "timeless common humanity" to unite Greek ideals with the wearier 20th Century. What he finds, at first, is a modern tempter with a fat bankroll and a skinny conscience, who tries to bribe him away from his book...
...cheerful cockney" of literary and war fame has disappeared. "My God, man, there aren't any happy cockneys," said a knowing Londoner. A high U.S. official, transferred to London after long service in Rome, found British faces unhappier and wearier than those in hungry Italy. One of England's best writers last week said that no one writing about England today had any right to base anything upon the assumptions of ten, five, even two years ago: "Something has happened...