Word: slenderest
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...slenderest of margins, South Dakotans handed Republican Karl Mundt, 60, a political prize they have not bestowed in 30 years: a third term in the Senate. Mundt encountered stern competition from onetime History Professor (Dakota Wesleyan University) and two-time Congressman George McGovern, 38, who banked on rural discontent this year to unseat Mundt...
Actually, the two disorders are closely related-how, in scientific detail, no one knows. While it is true that many victims of arteriosclerosis show no hypertension, every victim of hypertension examined after death shows arterial damage of some kind. Hardening of the minute arterioles-the slenderest twigs at the extremities of the arterial tree-almost always goes with high blood pressure. Its immediate cause seems to be loss of elasticity in the arterioles' thin muscular walls...
...London's ability to carry on under a continuous hail of bombs, amid seething wreckage and raging flames, without a roof over the heads of people, without sleep and with the slenderest food supplies, is not due to British ability to 'take it' or proverbial toughness...
...White House. His health has never been robust and during the 1932 campaign when he worked day & night and slept in his clothes, he lost 32 lb. He takes stairs slowly and detective stories as relief from insomnia, and his old devil, indigestion, which confines him to the slenderest diet, has sapped his vitality in recent months. After his long summer holiday, he was back in Washington last week feeling so much better that he ordered the couch on which he used to lie in his old office removed from his new office...
Only the Labor press was jubilant, hailed James Ramsay MacDonald as he seemed to advance upon the platform of broad and sympathetic dealings with subject peoples which he laid down at Geneva last fall (TIME, Sept. 9, et seq.). Badly perplexed, for he has but the slenderest majority in Parliament, Mr. MacDonald said to a cheering Labor audience : "The men [Indians] with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for a purely Indian government and had been faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would...