Word: weatherbeaten
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When he arrived at the wharf, a lanky, gray-haired man with weatherbeaten hands, and saw that only one person wanted to go, he was even less keen. I got a scolding for not arriving at 9 a.m., for not bringing a group, and for not appreciating what an expense of time and money it was to take out the boat...
This being a family newspaper, much of it I can't report. But something curious caught my eye: "LiberAls Suck." Next to that, perhaps significantly, was a weatherbeaten clump of spearmint Bubble Yum which looked remarkably like a small chlorophyll turd...
Currently, Schultes is devoting much of his time to writing his eighth book on botany which will deal primarily with the rubber trees. Using his drawerful of weatherbeaten notebooks, accumulated over decades of work in the tropics, he is attempting the first complete classification of the plant...
...Forty weatherbeaten shacks and a grassy airstrip by a swampy river delta may not seem like much of a military stronghold. "But in the year-old guerrilla war along Nicaragua's southern border with Costa Rica, the jungle hamlet of San Juan del Norte has taken on a symbolic importance well beyond its dubious strategic value. After three days of pitched battle two weeks ago, contra guerrillas from the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) overwhelmed the Sandinista garrison in the town and scored their first major military victory. After a few uneasy days of quiet, Nicaraguan troops counterattacked last week...
...behalf. South Dakota lost one of its two House seats to redistricting, forcing Incumbents Clint Roberts, a Republican who represented the conservative, ranching western part of the state, and Thomas Daschle, a Democrat who represented the more liberal, farming eastern side, to battle each other. Roberts, whose weatherbeaten, mustachioed face has peered out of an ad as the visage of the Marlboro Man, ran a bumbling campaign and lost to Daschle, a hard-driving sophisticate. Said Roberts, resignedly: "There is a lot of unrest out there, a lot of impatience. I can understand that...