Word: slendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returns to his home town for a week or so to help the old folks get the house repaired. Novelist Brooks uses this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They...
Last week General Electric announced that two of its scientists, Dr. Robert L. Fullman and Arno Gatti, have created a slender crystal of iron that is nearly as strong as it should be in theory. The G.E. crystal is only 1/1000 of an inch in diameter (the diameter of the finest human hair is about 1/1500 of an inch), but careful tests have proved it astoundingly strong. If its cross section were one square inch, it could hold up a weight of almost 1,000,000 pounds...
...oldest and most primitive corn cobs--scarcely larger than a one-cent piece--were found in Bat Cave, N.M. They are estimated to date from 3000 to 3900 B.C., the botanists revealed. The plant bearing these cobs was thought to be a slender shoot, one or two feet in height...
...this House have the greatest admiration and affection for the Prime Minister . . . Can we be left in suspense?" Beaming, Sir Winston broke in to say, "I am sorry I did not bring my hearing aid," as he dispatched his son-in-law, M.P. Christopher Soames, to get the slender, white, lily-shaped trumpet Sir Winston has substituted for the earplug he first used.-"I don't want to miss anything," he confided in a loud aside. Fletcher tried again. Churchill, his trumpet to his ear, sat back smiling benignly, but said not a word...
...Bricker insists that Congress shall have the power to regulate all executive agreements; the Administration will not yield these powers-which are all too slender in an era when events demand fast, detailed executive action in foreign relations...