Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political charm is that he strikes people as old shoe rather than old tie. His engagingly homely face is his No. 1 political asset, with its drooping eyelids, lean cheeks, long nose, wide-spaced teeth, and the famed "cowcatcher chin." That reassuring face has been termed "a well-worn American antique" and "the most distinctive face in U.S. public life." Deviousness would have a hard time finding a hiding place there. It is a face New Englanders trust...
...mostly Wrigley wants to indulge in his favorite sport of being Wrigley's largest stockholder. Though he told the other stockholders last week that he was "going into 1944 well worn down physically and with a consequent lack of enthusiasm and vigor," no one who knows him expects him to regain his health away from the business...
...took medicine that added acid to his stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...
...National Youth Administration, now an organizer for the National Farmers Union. Williams, a frequent White House dinner guest, said he left "with the distinct impression that Mr. Roosevelt wouldn't run again, although he didn't say so directly." Added Mr. Williams: "He looked so tired and worn that I was shocked...
...Motivations. The meeting was confidential, but, as usual, it leaked. During it, Secretary Hull, worn, harassed, irascible, complained at great length about his "damned detractors" of the press and radio. He let drop one tidbit of news: he had taken a plan for the future of Germany to Moscow, but it had been ruled off the conference agenda even though Eden and Litvinoff personally thought it was fine. But mostly old Mr. Hull harped on what are now clearly the two prime motivations of U.S. foreign policy...