Word: slenderness
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...Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys...
...prancing on an open-air platform while, at garishly decorated stands, French stage and screen stars whooped it up for French products. In all the buzzing, crowded area there was but one solemn touch. A long, patient line had formed before a plain board platform. On it sat a slender, spectacled novelist rapidly autographing stacks of his latest book. They were selling as fast as he could write his name in a large clear hand: C. Virgil Gheorghiu. Within a couple of hours he had sold close to 1,000 copies of The Twenty-Fifth Hour...
...minutes later it happened again, and Harvard pulled back its wing halfbacks to protect the slender 3 to 2 margin until the final whistle...
...Puritani. Then the pianistically mannered Thalberg played his variation; Liszt provided a transition to the offering of Pixis; Herz came next, then Czerny, whose knuckle-cracking exercises have been the nemesis of piano students for the last hundred years. Liszt, from his piano, interjected a Fuocoso molto energico; the slender Chopin added an exquisite largo. At last, in his finale, Liszt wittily and skillfully parodied the styles of the others-except Czerny and Chopin, whom he respected too much. The audience buzzed with excitement. Tickled, Liszt later published the whole thing with the name Hexameron, often played...
...were dug in by the roadside waiting to take care of what they thought was a Red advance, recognized his vehicles. Baker had led a dash of 106.4 miles in eleven hours, had tied the U.N. advance from the south with U.S. troops in the north. It was a slender thread soon to become a mighty noose around 50,000 enemy troops...