Word: slender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightly orders around, or remonstrates with, there were anxious meetings at the White House. The President profoundly admires MacArthur as a general, said the White House man, but believes that political and diplomatic decisions affecting the U.S. should be made in Washington, not Tokyo. Finally, on short notice, quiet, slender Averell Harriman, the President's new foreign affairs troubleshooter, was hustled off by plane to Tokyo. He was to tell the general to keep the President better informed, and on non-military matters to make recommendations, not decisions...
Among the bronzed, broad-shouldered young men who turned up for the National A.A.U. swimming championships in Seattle last week, slender, mild-mannered John Birnie Marshall was easy to overlook. But there was no missing Australian-born John Marshall when he uncoiled for the mile race. For 20 minutes, the biggest splash in U.S. swimming since Johnny Weissmuller had spectators, officials and competitors watching hardly anybody else...
...would write three articles oh the dialectics of Wallace's defection, but Green got so steamed up that he wrote four. In recognizing the authority of a United Nations action decided in the absence of a Soviet delegate, thundered Green, Wallace had taken refuge in "a technicality so slender that even a crafty Wall Street corporation lawyer would find difficulty in making a case...
...Dark, slender Major Dean Hess, a 32-year-old World War II fighter pilot, landed at a South Korean airstrip one day last week to report a highly successful strafing mission. Hess had spotted four Communist boats crossing the Kum River east of Taejon. He burned and strafed the boats, wheeled and roared back at the target again. Fleeing Red soldiers were scrambling up the river bank. Hess's six machine guns laced a pattern of lead along the bank. "I looked back," he said, "and there were 30 soldiers stretched out flatter than pancakes." He grinned, then checked...
...Tall, slender, bespectacled Ring Lardner, 34, grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, went to Andover and Princeton. At home Ring Sr. never discussed political issues, but the sardonic views that salted his writings also flavored his conversation. Or as his friend Heywood Broun put it, in the jargon of their set: "Under an insulation of isolation and indifference, Ring boiled with a passion against smugness and hypocrisy and the hard heart of the world...