Word: slenderness
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...orchestra was less successful in this regard in the two slender symphonies by William Boyce which had opened the concert. The performances, particularly of the Symphony Number Three, lacked the unanimity of attacks so necessary in brisk Eighteenth Century miniatures of this kind. But enthusiasm is almost as important as finesse, and enthusiasm the orchestra had in abundance...
...last time Churchill saw Franklin Roosevelt was on board the U.S. cruiser Quincy, in the harbor of Alexandria, after the Yalta Conference. The President seemed "placid and frail," to have only a "slender contact with life." The first time Churchill met Harry Truman was at Potsdam, ten weeks after the V-E day which Roosevelt did not live to see. Truman impressed the British Prime Minister with his "gay, precise, sparkling manner and obvious power of decision...
...cynical, bitter, confused; he is also a great reader and a lover of Mozart. Big and tough, he is a terror with his weapons or his fists. To Rita, whose husband is a prisoner of the Russians, Sanders is a find. But so is Saint-Anne, a shy, slender 18-year-old, who worships Rita as fervently as she uses...
...More Religion? There were plenty of people to talk to when the convention's seances were under way. The Rev. Ernest Gleason got a message for a young man in the audience from a "tall and slender" lady "who is putting her arms around your neck." The Rev. Marie Sykes, 68, of Los Angeles' Central Spiritualist Church brought a woman messages from a spirit named "Blossom." One woman was ominously advised to get her "papers in readiness...
...baked bean, the sacred cod and the Bunker Hill Monument. Portly Democrat Paul Dever, a seasoned performer and a spellbinder among the masses, who had croaked his way to national TV fame as keynoter at the Democratic Convention last summer, had looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with a slam-bang attack...