Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Greenville lynch trial (TIME, May 26) drew to an end. On the ninth day, haggard from strain, Judge James Robert Martin Jr. read his instructions to the all-male, all-white jury. He minced no words: "A court of law recognizes no color. . . . I instruct you . . . not to allow any so-called racial issue to enter into your deliberations. . . ." The jurors filed out. A door closed behind them...
...came-Vassar and Yale sent three apiece, and Wellesley supplied a small brunette and a big blonde-that the conference had to be moved from the New Republic's library to the subscription counter one flight up. Haggard-looking Wallace, in red diamond-patterned necktie and blue suite, leaned up against the counter, perspiring freely, and answered questions for the better part of an hour...
Down Potsdam's slushy Berlinerstrasse stumbled twelve haggard men. Halfheartedly they tried to avoid the largest puddles. Their faces had the pale, creased look of prisoners. Behind them trudged a stubby, broad-faced Russian soldier, Tommy gun crooked in his right arm, the wide Ukrainian steppe in his blue eyes...
...Roman man-in-the-street simply says: 'Thank God, we know where the U.S. stands.' But one important reservation was expressed by a barber in a well-known shop patronized by haggard Assembly deputies. Said he: 'Well, I suppose all this makes things clearer, but when it's between Greece and Turkey on one side and Russia and Yugoslavia on the other, it's a devil of a choice you give...
...walked in. The Progressive Conservatives' John Bracken, the CCF's M. J. Coldwell, the Social Crediters' Solon Low, and Independent Liberal Jean Francois Pouliot each greeted the Prime Minister in turn and in effusive phrases. Then Mr. King rose to speak. He looked wan and haggard. His face, ruddy before his illness, was pale and drawn. For the first time the redoubtable and enduring William Lyon Mackenzie King looked all of his 72 years. Nor did his voice have its accustomed ring as he thanked members and added: "I shall do my best to be on hand...