Word: slenderness
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Apparently, many thought so. A slender, pretty woman of 61, Lenore had difficulty in persuading voters that she was skilled in politics or battle-tested in any significant arena...
...goods with too much yeast. Clothes cannot contain these creatures-nor are they meant to. Bras and girdles, filmy negligees and deep-plunging necklines only point up the obvious, or pad out the underdeveloped until, literally, their cups runneth over. They are the antithesis of haute couture's slender subtleties, these fantasy models in the catalogues put out by Frederick's of Hollywood. They promise, in striking graphics, what any woman might achieve in styles by Frederick...
Unless she is rich and rangy, a young woman who curls up with Vogue or Harper's Bazaar is often tantalized by the sight of slender models wearing clothes beyond her budget in an opulent milieu that she can only dream of entering. If she bunks down with Rags, a new and determinedly iconoclastic fashion monthly, she will find people with bulges like her own, wearing clothes that she can afford, against backdrops as familiar as a brick wall...
...Brandt's coalition a thin twelve-seat majority in the 496-seat West German parliament. In two of the three states, the Free Democrats failed to gain the 5% of the vote required to be seated. The plight of the Free Democrats threatened to undermine Brandt's slender hold on power. Some Christian Democrats were even threatening to try to bring down the government. Under the circumstances, Ulbricht may have reckoned that some sign of progress on the diplomatic front would strengthen Brandt's position...
...desperately intent on keeping us apart. Finally, in a transport of sorrow, I decided to return to Rome. Ah, but then at the airport I saw the adorable autoball player and followed him to a hotel. When I learned he was not my Gregory after all, my slender dream shattered into a thousand meaningless fragments...