Word: haggardly
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Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
...ideas, even when they were wholly foreign to him. And his capacity for sticking to such ideas until they had been set down clearly with illuminating, readable detail. Nothing was too much trouble for him.' . . He worked, as everyone now knows, fnuch too hard, really. He wore himself haggard in those early days when the entire reference library would be lugged over Monday night to the printing shop on 12th Avenue and Brit would stay there, often until long after Tuesday sunrise, correcting messy page proofs, catching factual errors, improving captions or footnotes, fitting important stories into impossibly small...
From her seat in the small stuffy courtroom of Honolulu's Judiciary Building, a once handsome, now haggard New York & Washington society, matron eyed these twelve U. S. citizens as last week they took permanent seats in the jury box. They were the twelve men good & true who would try her, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, for second-degree murder. On the same charge they would also try her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. Navy, who sat beside her staring at the floor and biting his lips. Likewise they would try Seamen Edward J. Lord...
Scot MacDonald, who had used these very words to exhort the Conference to action, had nothing to say to the Press, looked haggard...
Consequences of Professor Henderson's emphasis of the necessity of carbon dioxide in breathing are many. With able Assistant Professor Howard Wilcox Haggard, he has demonstrated them...