Word: haggardly
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...crises for the country and his Administration, but Reagan cruises along as serenely self-confident as ever. Now is usually the time in a first term when the press trots out the before-and-after photographs, palpably depicting the burdens of the Oval Office: rosy, beaming President-elect vs. haggard, wan incumbent. But Reagan, now the oldest President in history, seems to have grown more robust since his Inauguration. After three years his optimism appears undimmed, his faith in bedrock conservative notions unshaken. "His perspective is unusual," explains one White House aide of the boss's remarkable equanimity. "Someone...
Houston was the home town of the Urban Cowboy, a ghost town in that sense now. The country-and-western boom has gone the way of the Oilers, who in the words of Fullback Earl Campbell (originally of Songwriter Merle Haggard) have gone the way of "a snowball rolling downhill headed for hell." Halfway through the season last week, the Oilers had lost them...
...Girls I've Loved Before, which they sang together on the televised awards show. Who knows? They might even win one of the awards next time. Nelson did in fact win Vocal Duo of the Year last week. But paired with a more certified country boy, Merle Haggard...
...face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That disease-plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor, sedentary work. Dr. Einstein, like so many other scholars, takes no physical exercise...
...pierced by the sound of artillery practice. I listened unblinkingly as the old women urged me to center my life around a devoted husband and family so that I didn't end up forsaken like herself. The predictability of her advice was irritating. But her sorrowful goodbye and the haggard, living example she provided tempered my extremist aversion to the idea of marriage and a family. Lulla's predicament enlightened me to the fact that, for all the polemical feminist literature I'd digested since I was 12, my harsh beliefs had essentially taken shape within the safe and cozy...