Word: slenderness
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...slender, 19-year-old marine reported for duty last week at the carpenter shop of Camp Pendleton, Calif. For one of the mightiest small fights in World War II, Pfc. Andrew Jackson ("Duke") Carter Jr. of Paducah, Tex. had only one mark to show; he had a deep red scar on his right hand...
Compared to the Greek ideal (e.g.., Aphrodite of Cyrene), Norma is relatively slim-hipped and less voluptuously curved; the trend in development of her figure seems to be toward the "high fashion" or dress-model type-a tall (5 ft. 7 in.) triangular shape with broad shoulders, very slender hips and long legs...
...Tall, slender Semion K. Tsarapkin heads the Foreign Commissariat's Section of American Affairs, was formerly its chief Far Eastern expert...
Reported Missing. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, cool, slender Army chaplain credited with minting the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes," hero of a 1942 Bataan hospital bombing during which he calmed patients with prayer despite his own shrapnel-broken arm; in the sinking of a Japanese prison ship by a U.S. submarine last December...
...spoke of her three novels: "My books are forgotten for the moment-but they will be read again." She said of her first husband: "I took the only course that could save us from a life of self-contempt and spiritual dishonor." Of her second husband, handsome, upright and slender, with trembling hands and' bushy eyebrows, Mrs. Jardine said: "He was a passionate ornithologist-that is, he knew all about birds." She ended the chapters of her conversations with such studied, melodramatic disclosures as: "I have never seen my grandchildren...