Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight figure, wide grin and puckish face-unlike Willie's, his beard was no heavier than peach fuzz-was better known to the Fifth Army than General Mark Clark...
...Slight, sandy-haired Lieut. Steinberg, now in Washington awaiting a new Navy assignment, cannot disclose what his Navy job has been-except that in India and Africa "I was doing the usual waiting for transportation, having stomach trouble and sitting under...
...Assembly was coming out of San Francisco with its slight power only slightly increased. The principle of equality of sovereign nations was still recognized in name only...
Major General Curtis E. ("Ironpants") LeMay has lately become known as "The Cigar." He usually has one clenched in his teeth (it helps to cover a slight facial paralysis, the result of an old wound), and the boys of his 21st Bomber (B29) Command, in sincerest flattery, have also become cigar puffers. Last week their stogies stuck up at a cocky angle. Their morale and their operational results were soaring...
...Though slight and thin-shouldered, he practiced every sport, even wrestling. He was best at swimming. Years later he confessed: "I am not really good at any sport. In swimming, however, I rather think I can hold...