Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession sped across the bomb-scarred wasteland from Tokyo to Yokohama. Through his thick glasses Hirohito gazed on his country's devastation. Along the bumpy route his people-shabby, shivering, shambling-greeted their ruler's bizarre cavalcade with bewildered reverence...
...acquired studies by the 19th-Century Frenchman Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who believed that drawing is seven-eighths of art. His penciled portraits had all the icy perfection, but not the controlled fire of the Renaissance greats. Said Classicist Ingres: "Let us not admire Rembrandt and the others through thick and thin; let us not compare them. . . to the divine Raphael and the Italian School; that would be blaspheming...
Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
...bowlers, most of them middle-aged and middle-thick, were leisurely, almost casual, seemingly unimpressed with their own skill. Among the spectators behind the brilliantly lighted alleys there was no excitement. Once, when a ball hung on the alley's edge, then curved in for a strike, a woman shouted: "What if it does come out of the gutter?-it looks good on the score...
From behind the thick-lensed glasses that give him a Martian rather than a martial appearance, Military Expert Fletcher Pratt last week shot a pained backward look at the war he had helped to report. Critic H. L. Mencken, who only knew what he read in the papers, had called its war correspondents "a sorry lot" (TIME, Jan. 14). Expert Pratt, a correspondent himself, is convinced that World War II "was very nearly the worst reported war in history." But he turned the blame elsewhere...