Word: slenderness
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Instead, some are experiencing a stressful kind of deja vu. They often feel overwhelmed by the emotional, financial and legal hardships of their improvised status as child guardians. In hardscrabble urban areas, where strung-out parents use their welfare checks to buy drugs, grandparents must support young wards on slender fixed incomes. The better-off find themselves pressed too. "Without the kids to take care of, I wouldn't be working as much," says Florence Gilmore, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., who works as a private-duty nurse to support three young grandsons. Nonetheless, Gilmore faced the prospect of bankruptcy...
...course a dissenting view. "He's long on rhetoric," grumbles Scott Matter, former executive director of the Nebraska Republican Party. "Almost like a stage performer. But it's hard to come up with any accomplishments." Still, in Nebraska, where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by 70,000, Kerrey, a slender, earnest man with outsize eyes, has won two statewide elections -- for Governor in 1982 and for Senator in 1988 -- in which Republican support was essential. Dick Mercer, a cattle rancher from Kearney and a lifelong Republican, in 1988 headed up an organization called Third Congressional District Republicans for Kerrey. Why? Says...
...stories tall, but it is marvelously narrow -- a mere 50 ft. wide. New buildings of this height usually contain two or three times as much square footage; no matter how interesting or tarted up, such behemoths almost inevitably darken and oppress their bit of the city. This slender, elegant slab is like a dancer among thugs...
...royal family was shocked when 250 armed religious extremists occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Their defeat took two weeks and cost 229 lives. Suddenly the regime became more devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks and striking transgressors, such as women who show too much skin or shopkeepers who don't close their shutters quickly enough for the five-times-a-day prayer sessions required of all Muslims...
...Gordian & Co. to preserve the slender lead, especially since the offense showed no signs of scoring any more points...