Word: slenderness
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...letters had been mailed from Amsterdam on the weekend. Each of them had been specifically and neatly addressed and bore the exact postage for its slender weight. Unlike the old-fashioned parcel bombs, the new devices came in ordinary manila or airmail envelopes...
Minuscule Dosage. The first involved Rick DeMont, 16, a slender distance swimmer from San Rafael, Calif., who had won the 400-meter freestyle by 1/100 sec. over Australia's Brad Cooper. Only minutes before he was to swim in the finals of the 1,500-meter freestyle, DeMont was told that he had been disqualified; an illegal stimulant, ephedrine, had been found in his urine specimen, submitted after the 400. The ephedrine was in prescribed medication that DeMont, an asthmatic, had been taking for years and that he had noted on his Olympic medical form. But neither the Olympic...
...merits of Lehmbruck's last years were in form and the failures were in expression. Isolate the head of Praying Girl, 1918, and it is unremarkable. What makes the sculpture live is the brilliantly worked-out series of triangular voids defined by the armpits, the forearms and the slender torso; the body becomes a drawing in space...
...last week Burns had persuaded both President Nixon and Treasury Secretary George Shultz. The Federal Reserve thereupon bought back an undisclosed amount of dollars on the open money market, purchasing them with German marks taken from the slender American currency reserves. Beyond that, the Federal Reserve made known that it will revive currency "swaps" with other countries. Swaps, which had been common before last August, allow the U.S. to borrow foreign currencies and use them to buy back dollars...
Bobby Jones once observed that nobody really wins a major golf tournament; someone always loses it. Indeed the salient feature of last week's British Open was not so much Lee Trevino's narrow victory, but Jack Nicklaus' slender loss. Nicklaus had already won the Masters at Augusta, Ga., and the U.S. Open and had set his sights on this tournament and the upcoming P.G.A. in a bid for an unprecedented grand slam of professional golf...