Word: haggardly
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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...
...Looking haggard, but as grimly self-assured as ever, Minister Shinwell put the success of the indefinite blackout on Britons themselves. He spoke gloomily: "I say to domestic and industrial consumers that if they decline to cooperate in this emergency, we will find ourselves in the next ten days in a condition of complete disaster...
...smoke-swirled office was littered with sandwich scraps, cigaret stubs and half-filled cups of cold coffee. At 5:12 a.m., two haggard, bleary men-Paul Richter, vice president of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and David Behncke, president of the Airline Pilots Association (A.F.L.), scratched weary signatures on a truce. After 25 days, the first major U.S. airline strike was over...