Word: weather-beaten
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...surface, the ceremony seemed routine-the Roman Catholic archbishop of New Mexico presenting a book of religious music to a weather-beaten old man. But to the participants, last week's simple presentation had dramatic overtones. For the man on whom the archbishop smiled was Don Miguel Archibeque, longtime head of the self-torturing sect called Penitentes, which was officially banned by the church for almost 100 years...
...prospectors followed Chiwaro to the place where he had found the rock. They worked carefully up the slope, pushing the veld grass gently aside with their hands, until they struck an outcrop of pegmatite and schist. It was the end of their search. Embedded in the soft, weather-beaten rock were emerald clusters, green and unmistakable...
...possessed had long since faded from his face and only a remnant of fire burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...
...bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here and now is the free world's only deterrent to major aggression and, in the familiar words of its weather-beaten air men, a loaded pistol pointed squarely at Khrushchev's head...
...outskirts of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, about 30 miles north of London, come visitors of all nations on pilgrimage. They are led down a garden path past herbaceous borders and neat rows of vegetables to emerge suddenly in an open field. Against this lush background stand some weather-beaten perennials (opposite), Moore's abstractions, scooped-out females, spatulate King and Queen, draped Reclining Figure...