Word: slender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about reviving operas that have good roles for her." And Europe still presents a challenge. Four years ago she went on a concert tour of Scandinavia, but she has yet to sing opera abroad. Europe will not think her a beauty. One European musician describes her thus: "Fairly tall, slender, and has a pleasant horse face, like a clean-cut American college girl." And Europe has heard better voices. But everyone likes life-and Patrice Munsel has a lot of that. Among other things, she would like to try her Fledermaus Adele-in German-on the Viennese...
Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
...also a refreshing reminder, in the somewhat fetid atmosphere that has gathered around the pseudo-amateurs of U.S. sports, that winning football is not the monopoly of huge hired hands taking snap courses at football foundries. In a day when most back-fields average 180 lbs., he is a slender 5 ft. 11 in., 171 lbs. He is a senior at a small university (3,000) that does not buy its football teams. At Princeton he has a scholarship, just as 42% of his teammates have (and 40% of all Princeton undergraduates). He is an above-average student majoring...
...tall, slender man he chose as successor to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall...
About 4850 B.C., 300-odd human beings, small-boned and slender, settled on a grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...