Word: slenderness
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...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...
...long hand with long, bony fingers, firm muscles and flat palm, long nails with well developed moons, and many deep, clear-cut palm lines belongs to tall, slender people, nervous and excitable, vivacious, popular, successful, in danger of becoming egotistical. They will tend toward disease of the thyroid, tuberculosis or nervous disorders. Among them are many tennis champions, polo players, dancers and engineers...
Sooner than most, he had recognized that Germany's hope on the high seas, in this war as in the last, lay in the slender, lonely little craft effectively typed "torpedo carriers." When he took the supreme command, he pledged: "The entire German Navy will henceforth be put into the service of inexorable U-boat warfare." From his headquarters somewhere in Axis Europe last week, Doenitz wielded a potent weapon...
...Electrical charges accumulate in clouds, positive at the top, negative on the bottom. A spark bursts through the air to another cloud or to the earth-lightning. First comes a faint leader stroke, then a huge discharge builds upward from the earth. The slender core (about the thickness of a finger) explodes into a column of fire much greater in diameter. As this heated air cools and contracts, other air rushes in to fill the space. This sudden disturbance makes the thunderclap...
...lobby a young girl stood silently looking at the blown-up portrait of Harry James-a slender, mustachioed, modest young musician...