Word: weather-beaten
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...picture from Fort Banning of what looked like a nail-spitting, weather-beaten machine gunner from way back turned out to be of Lieut. Colonel Frank Murphy, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who went on leave for military duty just a month...
...Jawbone" (temporary) commission as first lieutenant and was temporary captain for a brief period in 1919, but was eventually returned to his permanent rank of sergeant. Uncomplaining, he re-enlisted as a buck private, cashed out in 1923 as master sergeant after 22 years of service. Since then, balding, weather-beaten, publicity-shy, he has lived like any other Kentucky farmer. To U.S. oldsters who remembered Sam Woodfill's war record, his recall from retirement was not a minute too soon...
Last week lean, weather-beaten Colonel Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 48, replaced Brigadier General Bob Olds as chief of the U.S. Air Force Ferrying Command. Bombardment George's job is a lulu: he is responsible for the transport of all planes from U.S. factory lines to the place of use, whether in the U.S. or at front lines in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He must cram all possible men, equipment and supplies into every outgoing plane, must find and train pilots on the side...
...United Nations were not idle. Down from China marched troops of Chiang Kaishek, tattered, road-worn, weather-beaten and fit. They traveled in the classic Chinese manner-on foot and incredibly fast-covered 1,000 miles before going into position. Probably they were somewhere on the upper Thailand border, from which more Japs might still issue to strike directly at the Burma Road...
...Commander in Chief of the N.E.I. Army, Lieut. General Gerardus J. Berenschot. Hein ter Poorten's beefy, weather-beaten face was impassive, his great 220-lb. body vastly immobile as he heard the message: "Het is Zoover"-This is it. With the economy of movement characteristic of great bodies, he hung up, pushed a button on his desk. N.E.I.'s well-concerted war plans went into action...