Word: slenderness
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...Germans had called their Mitteleuropa wall, a depth of forts and trench works. It had zigzagged dugouts, trenches, minefields, concrete fire points. Rokossovsky's forces worked for two days on Mlawa, then painfully hacked through. Perhaps Mlawa was a symbol. For all its outer strength, it leaned on slender reeds of reserves - units of the Volkssturm, inhabitants of the town...
They succeeded in sending "Scholarly Son" to St. John's (missionary) School in Shanghai. Then he went off to Boston-but unlike Charlie Soong, T.V. went on to Harvard. A tall, slender undergraduate, he majored in economics, earned a B average. From Cambridge, T.V. went down to New York, for further study at Columbia. On the side he clerked for the National City Bank, then suddenly chucked it all for a business career in China. He was 29, a middling success as a coal-&-iron merchant, a young family man married to a former missionary-school belle...
...that time mortar and artillery shells were dropping on the slender beachhead every 30 seconds. Colonel Crowe covered his chest wound with his poncho, covered his face with his helmet. A shell fragment tore through the poncho, pierced his chest in two more places. Five other fragments hit him in the left arm and shoulder, another in the right leg. A sliver tore off his thumbnail. A doctor who examined him said, "Not much chance...
...week's end the Germans had completed a successful "disengagement." But the Allies, too, had done well. The Nijmegen salient, which had once stuck out toward Arnhem like a slender and sensitive thumb, was now a broad, strong fist, securing the whole left flank of the Allied line. The Berlin radio asserted that Montgomery was mounting a new attack against Arnhem, had already dropped "sabotage parachutists" north of the celebrated bridge. From Aachen to Arnhem, the Germans dug in deeper, and waited for the big blow...
Israel's Freedom Fighters. The troublemakers were not the majority of Jews in Palestine but chiefly a fanatical group of Semite saboteurs who called themselves "Israel's Freedom Fighters," were believed to number about 400 men. Founder of the Fighters was a slender, moody, Lithuanian-born philosophy student named Abraham Stern. When not philosophizing, young Stern wrote poetry, brooded on the unhappy lot of his people. The British Government's White Paper (1939), limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine, convinced Philosopher Stern that the Jews must force concessions from the British at rifle point. He recruited a gang...