Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News, did not let her subway public down. Borrowing luscious details from the London Mirror account, she told how the happy newly weds headed for their bedroom (pink sheets) at Broadlands and how at a stair landing, "Philip looked down and put his arm around his bride's slender waist. She smiled shyly at her tall sailor husband as they continued on upstairs." For an added measure of tabloid taste, she guessed that the couple may have played some records that the Marquess of Milford Haven had given Philip, such as Cuddle Up a Little Closer or Bess...
Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...
...when the Central Powers' victory seemed certain, an Austrian clique dreamed of welding Austria, Hungary and the Ukraine into a new tripartite empire. They picked blond, slender Wilhelm to be its sovereign, put him to studying Ukrainian. Soon he wrote nostalgic Ukrainian verse about the landscapes he had scarcely ever seen. He started wearing Ukrainian embroidered blouses and from them took his royal pseudonym, Vasily Vichivany (vichivany means embroidered). In 1918, he fought the Russians as colonel of a Ukrainian regiment...
...significant one, the state power was not guilty. As for armaments, the massacres in India and Pakistan were as far removed as possible from modern war or from the gas chambers of Maidanek. The murderers with whom we are dealing used knives, chisels, ropes, hockey sticks, screwdrivers, bricks and slender fingers...
Viruses, said Stanley, are too small to be seen with ordinary microscopes; but electron microscopes show them plainly. The tobacco mosaic virus, for instance, is a slender rod. The rods affect one another at a distance as if they were tiny bar-magnets. This "long-range force," still unexplained, may prove the key to many deep life mysteries...