Word: slenderness
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...slender, shortish man with crew-cut grey hair stood up in Houston last week to tell about his work in an improbable and seemingly unpromising field: castration. When Charles Brenton Huggins, 51, had finished, officials and guests of the M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research applauded him lustily. For though he had belittled his success and attributed much of it to luck, Dr. Huggins had communicated the enthusiasm and restless energy with which he fights on one of the many fronts against cancer...
...soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
Crowds jammed Amman's King Feisal Avenue six deep last week. Watching from rooftops, veiled women set up the piercing wail of joy called Zaghareed. The object of the outcry, a smiling, slender lad in a slow-moving, blue 1953 Lincoln convertible surrounded by armored cars, replied again & again with precise Sandhurst salutes. The procession moved on to Jordan's Parliament building. There, dressed in the gilded blue uniform of an Arab Legion general, the lad rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution...
...lifetime, Gallaudet received little gratitude. A slender, sickly man, he graduated from Yale and the Andover Theological Seminary, but bad health seemed destined to thwart him in everything he tried. He was tormented by doubt ("I am languid, and cold, and slothful ... I am much, very much, too indolent"), and tortured by such weakness that he never dared take over a parish. It was not until he started teaching Alice Cogswell that he knew what his career was really...
...Finley recalls, was a dewildering experience. "The Master's residence was designed for Eliot's first Master, "Frisky" Merriman. He was a big man with four large children and he liked the barn-like size of these rooms. When Mrs. Finley and I toddled in with our two slender children, the place overwhelmed...