Word: thickset
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Trieste the Cominform had publicly pointed a pistol at Tito, and cocked it with a click the world could hear. The man with the gun was thickset, rasp-voiced Vittorio Vidali, Cominform boss in Trieste. He had spent a quarter century in the Communist underground. Wherever he went, murder followed...
...provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American." An ex-French Foreign Legionnaire wrote: "Only reason of request is to evade this life of a clerk which I live with much intolerance...
...lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the pocket of his tweed jacket and picked up his mortarboard. Still talking-to the accompaniment of occasional appreciative laughs and squeals from his audience-he leaned over to return the watch he had borrowed from a student in the front row. As he ended his final sentence, he stepped off the platform...
...quite understood how Kramer got the blister so late in the season. By using a special glove, the rangy No. 1 hope of U.S. amateur tennis* whizzed through the first three rounds. His big serve was working fine. In the fourth round, he met thickset, bespectacled Jaroslav Drobny, a Czechoslovakian left-hander who also had a big serve. They slammed it out, Kramer aggressively, Drobny methodically. The second set went to an exhausting 17-15 and Kramer developed new blisters, discarded his glove. He winced on each drive to Drobny's vulnerable spot, the backhand. In the end, Kramer...
...Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman at the head of the conference table...