Word: slenderly
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...Slender, dark-haired Brooks Emeny's restrained manner conceals a burning intensity of purpose. Married to the former Winifred Rockefeller (granddaughter of William Rockefeller, brother of John D.), he lives unostentatiously in swankily suburban Shaker Heights, firmly believes that 40 councils like Cleveland's could knock isolationism into a cocked...
...Slender, young, handsome Marine Captain Horace W. Fuller of Milton, Mass., more recently of Guadalcanal, knew what he wanted. His voice shook as he told it to OWI's Overseas Branch in Manhattan. He was on his own, without official backing, but would OWI please do something for the men out there? They were lonely and very tired. The mail was not getting through as fast as it might. Could they be reached direct...
Nobody knows just what the big shots at MGM were aiming at, but Harvard has got a request. A nice little girl, say twelve years old, slender and vivacious, would go down just right out in Hollywood. Something about a part in the forthcoming "National Velvet...
...Slender, trim, polyglot Luis Quintanilla is well-known and well-liked in Washington, where he served Mexico for many years, the last two as Minister and Counselor of Embassy. At George Washington University his lectures on political science were popular. His courses often branched out into political discussions in any language that came to tongue. Last week Dr. Quintanilla, now Mexico's Minister to Moscow, offered the English-speaking world his ideas. In a book, A Latin American Speaks, he showed that south of the Rio Grande there are men who can not only look over the wall...
...unsuccessful campaign to capture Tunisia. The dry, matter-of-fact voice, broadcasting from London, left out many details. But, added to the fragmentary dispatches that have passed censorship (see p. 58), it told enough. If the campaign had succeeded, it would have been a military coup. "It was a slender chance which failed...