Word: slight
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...Dark and intense with close-cropped black hair, Kim spent a year roaming around North Korea stealing to stay alive before escaping to China. (As with all of the other North Koreans mentioned in this story, Kim's name has been changed to protect his identity.) An orphan, his slight, wiry frame makes him look much younger than his 18 years. The Chinese have already arrested him on several occasions and sent him back: the last time he was put in a North Korean labor camp for repeat offenders. He and his older brother overpowered the guard and ran away...
...School Sisters of Notre Dame for having the foresight and brains (available for study) to help us aging baby boomers better understand the devastating illness of Alzheimer's [HEALTH, May 14]. Having just turned 50, showing symptoms of my family's history of heart disease and with slight problems with memory recall, I plan on following the findings of David Snowdon's study. Thanks to all the nuns who had the courage to participate so that people like me may have the opportunity to age with health and grace. J. KAREN KUGELMAN Queensbury...
...days at Radcliffe have no bearing on my life today,” says Ruth M. Fitzgerald `51 in an unapologetic tone and slight Boston accent. She is probably one of a handful of Harvard graduates who has a right to this claim...
...Friday night, November 24, a handful of Yale band members walked through the Yard blaring Yale fight songs. Slowly students gathered in the Square despite a slight drizzle...
...electric boat - powered by large batteries arranged along the keel, below the flooring of the cockpit - proceeds by stealth. Leaving the marina at Norrie Point, we picked up a few weeds that wrapped themselves around the propeller and threw the rotation of the shaft off true, causing a slight vibration in the tiller. Otherwise, the boat was frictionless and silent - a dreamlike passage. A few sailboats were out, luffing around a course. Now and then, a powerboat would approach us on a snarling Doppler, would rooster noisily past, and recede...