Word: slenderness
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...become a chief issue in the February election. The Labor Party had won a majority of only seven seats, but it had failed by more than a million votes to obtain a popular majority. Said Churchill: "Half of the nation ought not ... to claim the right on so slender a margin to knock the other half about and ride roughshod over...
Distended Stomach. Moreover, there were innovators such as King Akhnaton, who came to the throne about 1370 B.C. He demanded that his trembling sculptors carve him as he really looked: "Elongated head, gaunt face, slender limbs, distended stomach-no detail of this kind was spared ... On the contrary everything that was wrong from that aesthetic point of view was exaggerated, just like those modern works which strike the imagination while shocking established opinion...
...Happy." One battalion of marines had been assigned to capture Wolmi. They were good troops who had already fought well. The bulk of the enlisted men were youngsters of 18, 20 or 21. Slender, dark-faced Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett, who commanded the battalion, said wryly: "Of course, this is the first time they've been in one of these...
...Slender, durable Newshen Higgins, who covers Korea in tennis shoes, baggy pants and shirt and a fatigue cap that usually conceals her bobbed blonde hair, has done more than win the admiration of soldiers in her front-line reporting. She has also forced her male competitors, who at first tended to regard her as an impudent upstart in the business of reporting battles, to admit grudgingly that she was their match when it came to bravery and beats. More than once, Maggie Higgins has jeeped or hiked to hot spots while other correspondents hung back, thus forced them...
...right a line of blasted trees linked our area with the enemy. I knew each tree intimately, like old and hated enemies. The first, two feet of thick stump only; the next, twisted like a witch's nightmare; the third, a slender sliver in the half-light; the fourth, broad and black like soot. . . And there, against the soot, I saw him move...