Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopkins, the once selfless social worker, began to show all the signs of an avidly ambitious politician. Writes Sherwood: "Harry Hopkins, in the promotion of his own slender chances, was impelled to connive, plot and even to misrepresent . . ." Then, says Sherwood, when his illness compelled Hopkins to renounce that impossible ambition, "in the war years . . . he became and remained one of the most incorruptible...
Second-grade pupils were learning a poem which summed up much of Western Germany's mood: "Speckled autumn moves through the country with long steps and mighty hand. It bends the slender trees and it rustles the stout ones. Then the ripe apples and pears and apricots come tumbling down. The boys and girls shout: 'Hurrah, Uncle Autumn is here...
...propelled onstage. But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished. When it was finally over, little, white-topped Papa and slender, dark-haired Volodya stood together, bowing solemnly, as the audience cheered and clapped...
...Russia, slipped out from under FBI surveillance in 1945, is now believed to be in the U.S.S.R. The committee linked Adams with two U.S. scientists who had worked on secret atomic projects. One was Clarence Francis Hiskey, 36, now a chemistry professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The other was slender John H. Chapin, 35, now a brewery chemist...
...five governors of the British Broadcasting Corp., and one of Britain's most influential journalists. Last week she was introduced to the U.S. reading public with the publication of her latest book-her first in the U.S.-entitled The West at Bay (Norton; $3.50). Young Miss Ward, a slender, attractive woman who once wanted to become an opera singer, has a great deal to say to the U.S. Her book is an intelligent guide to the world...