Word: slenderness
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...lovely day in 1961, and in a springtime mood the students at Pennsylvania's little Allegheny College waited for their distinguished guest speaker, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas. A slender, brown-haired Kappa Kappa Gamma named Joan Carol Martin was especially anxious. After all, Joan was a political science major, an honor student who was deeply interested in juridical philosophy-particularly as expounded by Justice Douglas. Introduced to Douglas by an Allegheny professor, Joan escorted him about the campus. She was duly impressed, and charmed...
...Slender, blue-eyed Maria turned up at the office of a Milan newspaperman friend one day last week to see how they were playing the story. He jokingly wrote out a fake headline quoting her as saying: I LOVE HENRY AND I WILL SOON MARRY HIM. "Oh no!" she squealed, laughing delightedly. "That would ruin me!" They agreed to make it: MARIA CHRISTINA DOES NOT DENY FRIENDSHIP WITH HENRY FORD...
Attorney Hollowell's address to the jury was executed with consummate artistry. The evidence adduced by the State, he declared, "was a slender reed, gentlemen, in the tide of the testimony." As a tribute to the power of his argument, the court adjourned until the next morning, hoping that the span of a single night would erase Hollowell's words from the jury's minds...
...chemise family is a closely knit group. Fashion-conscious females who climbed out of the sack only a short while ago now find themselves climbing right back into the sack's first cousin, the shift. Already a slender trend as winter waned, the shift really switched into high with the summer solstice. On beaches from Maine to Malibu, lissome Loreleis clad in the latest two-piece bathing suits arranged themselves across the sand, apparently to ponder such girth-shaking questions as: How is a girl going to look her best when she isn't looking her barest? Thus...
...slender pejorative burden of Butor's book is contained in interwoven excerpts from a terrifying Salem witch trial, historical notes on the ill-treatment of American Indians, liberal quotes from the prospectus of Freedomland, U.S.A., and offerings from the views of various Southerners (real and imagined) on the Negro. Among them is one from that conscientious democrat Thomas Jefferson, who concluded, ". . . their inferiority is not the effect, merely, of their condition of life...