Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escort plane, the Seamaster had taken off from the Glenn L. Martin plant at Middle River, Md., on a routine test flight. As it yowled along at 22,000 to 25,000 ft. it was a thing of demonic beauty; with its 100-ft. swept-back wings, its slender 134-ft. hull and its four Allison J-71 jet engines, the seagoing bomber was capable of carrying a 30,000 Ib. pay load to 40,000ft. heights and at speeds over 600 m.p.h. Then, in an instant, the plane burst into flames, went out of control into a steep dive...
...tender and yet sharply disciplined, and in the upper reaches-shrill or not-she flashed a swordlike power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their ample, placid figures tones that esthetes call more beautiful. But just as the greatest beauties among women do not usually have flawlessly symmetrical features, the greatest voices are not characterized by a flawless marble perfection...
When Ike moved on to his first infantry posts and training schools during World War I he began to pick up a reputation as a disciplinarian. Around the age when he courted and married Mamie Geneva Doud, a slender girl with violet eyes (the Douds' maid was provoked one day when "Mr. I-Something" kept calling every 15 minutes), he was finding a new confidence that led him on to command, at 27, the tank training center at Camp Colt, Pa. But soon after Christmas 1920 their first child, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), died of scarlet fever when...
BROOKLYN, Oct. 10--Slender Johnny Kucks beat Brooklyn with a three-hit shutout to win the World Series for the New York Yankees in the seventh game today with the backing of four home runs, including two by Yogi Berra and a grand slammer by Bill Skowron...
...Slender Leyla Gencer, 29, moved about San Francisco's rehearsal stage followed by approving smiles, inviting glances and, among the company's Italian singers, audible coos. The heiress of a family of Turkish landowners, she gave up the idea of developing her voice when she married a banker. But in 1948 he encouraged her to study at the conservatory. Today she is diva of the Turkish State Opera in Ankara and is known across Europe...