Word: weather-beaten
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...accident, horrible but instructive, took place in front of Rumania's musty, weather-beaten Foreign Office in Bucharest. When jailed the driver of the car seemed neither drunk, blind nor mad, though his explanation was: "I just didn't notice them in time...
Brigadier General A. C. Dalton is 60 years old. Square-jawed and weather-beaten by many years of gallant army service (D. S. M.), his frame illy accords with an alpaca suit. He received what shipping experience he possesses during 1917-18 in the Transport Service...
...Lieutenant Commander Byrd, looking weather-beaten, stood before a cheering assemblage of ambassadors and ministers of many nations, Supreme Court justices, cabinet members, congressmen, scientists and high officers of the Army and Navy. He received the welcome and congratulations of President Coolidge, who also presented him with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society...
...Mardi Gras carnival have made New Orleans one of the storied cities of the U.S. Hither came adventurers from Latin Europe, from Latin America. Here endured an Old World culture exotic and attractive. The old quarter still persists between Canal Street and the river-its narrow streets, its weather-beaten, balconied homes and stores. But the oldtimers, the French and Spanish, have been-crowded out of late. Other Latins have replaced them, the Italians who have gone into trade and commission marketing...
John Garibaldi Sargent,* 64, six feet three, about 225 Ibs. in weight (he has been nearer 300 Ibs., but recently has been ill), low-collared, with stormy gray hair and a wrinkly weather-beaten face, was turned into an Attorney General almost before the country knew...