Word: slenderness
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Nehring had extended his slender fingerhold down the coast to Sfax and Gabès. But his biggest concentration was inside the ring around Bizerte and Tunis...
There were two men who knew more about this than anyone else. One was the French Pretender himself. Slender, sharp-nosed, soft-chinned Henri de Bourbon-Orléans, Comte de Paris, 34, was last week, as French law requires of pretenders, in exile. This descendant of the effulgent Bourbon kings through Louis Philippe d'Orléans was biding his time in a sprawling white villa in the quiet little Spanish Moroccan port of Larache, only 600 miles from the headquarters of U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower...
...mile pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...
...that the first flush of hero stories had almost run its course, more comprehensive news about the Solomon Islands began to find its way through the ironbound Navy censorship. The Marines still held what they had taken, but they would need still more reinforcements and ample supplies if the slender thread of their strength was to endure. Nobody knew this better than their 55-year-old commander, Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift. Despite destruction of 42 Japanese planes, without U.S. loss, and damage to enemy ships, he was in a tight spot. Aware of this fact, Admirals Ghormley and Nimitz...
Free Unless Delighted. Los Angeles will miss slender, square-jawed Clifford Clinton. In 1931, after depression rocked his seven San Francisco cafeterias, he moved there with $2,000 to open Brookdale Cafeteria, where each customer's check has an IMPORTANT NOTICE: "You may pay what you wish or dine free unless delighted." Hunger has always horrified him since boyhood days when, with his Salvation Army parents, he lived in China and saw gaunt Chinese devouring an oatmeal poultice his father had put on an old man's carbuncle...