Word: weather-beaten
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...four years, the American Arithometer Co. sold only 1,000 machines. Burroughs died and his successor moved the company to Detroit, for a reason that seemed fantastic to weather-beaten Detroiters. He liked the climate. Sales rose steadily, and by 1941, the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. (the name was changed because the public refused to use the word Arithometer) had branched out to calculators, cash registers, electric typewriters, accounting machines...
...Argentina (and Great Britain) in a hard-riding, first-class show. The first big polo match since the war, probably due to recent diplomatic differences between Washington and Buenos Aires, was something less than that. At Long Island's International Field last week, 21,000 fans crowded the weather-beaten stands to watch a good U.S. team trounce a fair Mexican quartet for the second time in a three-match series...
...dispatch-I . . . accepted. . . , In due time [the lady] returned, sister in company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years. . . . [But] no woman that I have seen, has a finer face...
...even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard-the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general...
Fifteen years passed. England was torn by civil war. Honor, crippled for life, was politically very much on her toes; she sped about the King's business in a wheel chair. Richard, very unhappy with his wife (he now had "a brown, weather-beaten air about him"), was appointed King's General in the West. When he bumped into Honor at the Cavalier headquarters he said, rather tactlessly: "I had not thought to find you so damnably unchanged." Then he asked: "Have you not your own apartment?" Said Honor with "some small attempt at dignity": "It would...