Word: thickset
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kursk steppe, where as a barefoot boy he had tended cattle. He grew up to have the Russian peasant's rough manners (even today he sometimes stuffs his mouth with food at public banquets, picks his teeth with his fingers). He was short (5 ft. 5 in.) and thickset with a round face and jug ears. He had small, dark, merry, merciless eyes and was as shrewd and crafty as he looked...
...Secretary of State, has since remarked: "The man would have to be my shadow, and I haven't found one"). Montini, in charge of day-to-day operations, is thin, suave, cool, precise, and politically a middle-of-the-roader. Tardini, in charge of long-range planning, is thickset, jovial, sharp-tongued, and further left...
...police have caught and jailed 1,000 Mau-Mau blacks, flogged thousands more. Yet the secret society is growing at a pace that suggests professional organization and funds from abroad. The Mau-Mau's leader, Kenya officials are sure, is black-bearded Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, 50, a thickset Kikuyu dandy, who runs the outwardly respectable Kenya African Union (K.A.U.), whose stated purpose is Negro advancement. A London-trained anthropologist who wrote (1938) a first-rate study of his people, Facing Mt. Kenya, Kenyatta is a devotee of Red magic. He spent the '30s in Moscow...
Visibility was so poor that Citation and his three rivals could barely be seen across the mist-shrouded infield. Trainer Jones, a thickset little man with a perpetually worried look, had a twinge of conscience as the field entered the starting gate: "It's a little like putting Joe DiMaggio back in the game in midseason and letting him bat against good, seasoned pitchers. He might strike out." Jimmy had another bad moment when Citation broke slowly and wallowed down the backstretch eating mud from other horses' heels...