Word: haggardly
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Mortar pits became graves for their crews. In the great tunnels, built to make Corregidor as impregnable as Gibraltar, haggard doctors stood and worked on floors slippery with blood. Food, medical supplies, ammunition...
...Germans. Their clothes looked unpressed and faded but still good. Their faces were grim. I particularly noticed one grey gentleman. He had on a fine, fur-collared coat and new overshoes, a prewar and rather frowzy hat. He walked and spoke with dignity and authority, but his face looked haggard...
...reading of Germany's declaration of war. Years later, a face was discovered in a photograph of this occasion. Among the hundreds of faces was one which, "despite the conspicuous ordinariness of [its] features, seemed illumined by an emotion unusual even in this crowd. It was a haggard, sickly face; the broad, bushy mustache gave it an artificially wild look; the protruding, hyperthyroid eyes sent forth an exaggerated gleam. . . . The man to whom this face belongs stands apparently alone in the crowd...
Krauts at Cervaro. The haggard faces, worn bodies of soldiers who survived the mountain fighting, often in or above the clouds, testified to the intensity of German resistance. Out of the fighting came many a tale...
...fury of battle had died down. Now weary, haggard, bundle-laden refugees slipped out of the forests, bent into the icy wind and snow, plodded across the pitted battlefield. Before them lay Gorodok - the "Little Town" - charred, ruined, stinking of dead flesh and gunpowder...