Word: skeletons
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...paid for his courage. After eleven years in Nazi concentration camps, Schumacher was a walking skeleton, his heart weakened, his eyesight half gone. Suffering lent him stature and magnified his will. To this gaunt, bitter man with the eyes of a Savonarola and a voice not unlike Hitler's, German Socialists rallied in the postwar gloom...
...trucks, 350 tractors and 80 power shovels, etc., have a replacement value of $20 million. He kept a big staff of specialists and workers, including more than 100 engineers under Vice President and Right-Hand-Man Walter Scott; unlike many others he did not pare down to skeleton size between jobs. Result: he got many new ones because he was the only man fully equipped to take them on. He helped build highways in California and Kansas and the big dams through the Missouri Valley. His firm's working capital grew to more than $20 million, his payroll...
...used to politics. And Pennsylvania politics have held the nation's horrified eye for 100 years because so little is concealed from the public view. In Pennsylvania the political backrooms have picture windows. Politicians let down their hair (if any) in front of reporters. Pennsylvania politics wears its skeleton outside its body, like a crab...
...princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that such a dream world exists, but that Bemelmans himself carries the skeleton key to its secret closets...
...Incorruptible. His old friends, seeing him again at war's end, hardly recognized him. The change was more than physical. His disposition had become icy and acerbic, his patience with arguers was gone, his confidence in his own judgment absolute. "He was a skeleton," says Carlo Schmid, now the No. 3 man in the party, "but there could be no doubt that he was the strongest power, that he had the greatest political brain, the most evident power of judgment. He had never given in to atmosphere or psychological pressures . . . [Now] he was as incorruptible as a geometrical theorem...