Word: slenderly
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...youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another a Pathet Lao peaked cap from Laos, and the third had on a fatigue jacket and red bathing trunks. But all three carried M-79 grenade launchers slung across their slender shoulders...
...Paris this year, the spring-summer haute couture collections emphasize an elegant simplicity, feminine and slender. Gone is the "tent," except as a thin summer coat, tightly belted. Dresses are either close-fitting sheaths and tubes -as at Saint Laurent, who showed the skinniest of all, faintly reminiscent of the long T shirts popular a while back in ready-to-wear-or fairly full skirted with waists clearly marked by tucks and belts, as Givenchy does them. Suits emphasize the midriff too, with slim skirts, or skirts tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey...
...blacks to work together in the legislature, he is a strong supporter of liberal social legislation. Ford's father is a prominent Memphis undertaker and Ford, too, is an undertaker, who also holds a master's degree in business administration from Vanderbilt University. For the campaign, the slender Ford put away his modish clothes in favor of pinstripes and softened his sometimes tough language. Which approach he will adopt in Washington is unknown...
Once the undraped star of underground films (Blue Movie, Lonesome Cowboys), Andy Warhol Protégée Viva is settling into tamer things these days. In her Topanga Canyon house in California, the slender, wide-eyed author of Superstar, a total-immersion confessional novel, is now completing a new book, The Baby, about her three-year-old daughter Alexandra. "She may be the most documented child in history," observes Viva, whose husband, French Film Maker Michel Auder, is engaged in a ten-year project to video-tape their daughter's early years. "I never did know what...
...spindly three-legged spacecraft sits silently on the dry, barren landscape. Suddenly, on command from controllers some 200 million miles away, the robot comes alive. A motor whirls; a slender, 10-ft. long arm reaches out, opens a small scoop and digs up some of the reddish soil...