Word: lank
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...ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief Act, and an onlooker noted that they "had long lank heads of hair, meagre countenances . . . and they uttered deep ejaculations; in short, displaying all the outward and visible signs of hypocrisy and starvation...
...shadows behind the Speaker's chair, a tall, lank figure made his way to the front bench, flopped down, and put his long legs up on the table. Sir Anthony Eden was making his first appearance in the House of Commons since his collapse at the height of the Suez crisis. Some Tories put up a polite cheer. One or two rose but hastily subsided when they realized no one else was joining them. Other Tories sat mutely staring straight in front of them. The Labor benches kept a stony silence, leaving the Tory welcome starkly revealed...
Divorced. Charles Samuel Addams, 44, necrographic cartoonist for The New Yorker; by slinky, lank-haired Lawyer Barbara Barb, 36, live ringer for Addams' lady lurker; after two years of marriage, no children; after Lawyer Barb established "residence" in a 45-minute divorce-mill hearing in Athens...
...girl in Miss Hewitt's Classes was small and scrawny, with lank orange hair that hung to her shoulders and a worried little button mouth that made her look like a newborn mouse. She stood stiffly in a corner like a broom somebody had left there, while the other girls smiled and pulled their sweaters down and wondered what the awkward little newcomer was doing in the drama class. When the teacher came in, she asked each girl in turn to say why she wanted to act. "Well, it's better than ballet," one saucy subdeb said...
...whose team Butler boosts devotedly, and ex-Governor Henry Schricker (1941-45, 1949-53), whom Butler served as a political troubleshooter. Two years ago, Butler unseated burly Frank McHale, Indiana Democratic boss for 15 years, as the state's national committeeman. To contrast him with McHale, Indianans call lank (5 ft. u^ in., 156 Ibs.) Paul Butler "the thin...