Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
...Whitey" and "Brownie" Reid are as different as the colors of their nicknames. Slender, sandy-haired Whitey (Yale '36) is a quiet, thoughtful ex-Navy aviator; he has been editor for the past eight years. Stocky, dark-haired Brownie (yale '49) is a driving, fast-talking ex-paratrooper; he has worked in a variety of jobs, mostly on the business side. For years Trib staffers have tried to guess which one-Whitey or Brownie-would end up as boss. Last week Helen Reid ended the guessing game...
...Twelfth-century Dorothy Diggs advised businessmen not to court ladies by boasting of "military prowess." If they did, the ladies would "point out that soldiers' calves are slender and their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly...
From a Teletype within the United Nations' slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the Security Council of the U.N. respectfully invites Red China to participate in a debate of ways and means to stop the shooting and avert a full-scale war over the question of Formosa. R.S.V.P...
...apparently not anticipated the U.S.-Formosa treaty). Chou also seemed to be assuming that time and other forces would be working for him. In that, he was at least partially right. Before the week was out, and the sound of Chou's insolence had died away, a slender man with jodhpured legs and a rosebud in his buttonhole scooted about the diplomatic conference rooms of London with whispered propositions on his lips. India's Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to be helpful...