Word: slenderness
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...equipment consisted of a 20-year-old oak rod, an 18-year-old reel and a 36-thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
Theaters & Mountains. More than ever, her son-a slender, reserved and intelligent kid-became the center of Libby Holman's life. They went on long trips together and worked at summer theaters, Libby as a performer, Topper as a stagehand. She visited him often at Putney School in Vermont, and stood by proudly last June when 17-year-old Topper, chairman of Putney's student council, graduated near the top of his class. This summer, Libby toured Europe. Topper went to California with Stephen Wasserman, a classmate, to work in one of the mines owned by Stephen...
...Indo-Chinese call their country, is shaped like the load which millions of her barefooted peasants carry over their shoulders: two bulging baskets at either end of a thin pole. One bulge is northern Viet Nam (Tonkin), and the other southern Viet Nam (Cochin China). In the slender central region (An-nam), the mountains ripple almost down to the coast. Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces terrorize the coastal plains. In the south, terrorists make life unpleasant in the crowded Saigon region, and the Communist Vietminh haunts the marshes between the numberless arms of the Mekong River...
...lightly orders around, or remonstrates with, there were anxious meetings at the White House. The President profoundly admires MacArthur as a general, said the White House man, but believes that political and diplomatic decisions affecting the U.S. should be made in Washington, not Tokyo. Finally, on short notice, quiet, slender Averell Harriman, the President's new foreign affairs troubleshooter, was hustled off by plane to Tokyo. He was to tell the general to keep the President better informed, and on non-military matters to make recommendations, not decisions...
...would write three articles oh the dialectics of Wallace's defection, but Green got so steamed up that he wrote four. In recognizing the authority of a United Nations action decided in the absence of a Soviet delegate, thundered Green, Wallace had taken refuge in "a technicality so slender that even a crafty Wall Street corporation lawyer would find difficulty in making a case...