Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners of war returning from Russia were thin, unkempt, hungry, tired. Relief workers greeted them with what poor Italy could afford: a cup of minestrone, two small loaves of bread, an apple...
Caspar Milquetoast is the only character Cartoonist Webster has ever given a name to-and Caspar,* with appropriate shyness, sneaked into the strip as a space filler. The rest of Webster's bald-headed bores, thin, puzzled wives, and freckle-faced kids need no name; they are, when they hit the mark-as they often do-Everyman...
...practical, patient Czechoslovaks have undergone occupation of one kind or another ever since Munich. Last week they gladly heard that the end was near. Mild-mannered, thin-faced Premier Zdenek Fierlinger announced that both Russia and the U.S. had agreed to withdraw their soldiers. In Washington the State Department said that both armies would leave...
...Very thin and clear and strong. Triple distilled. . . . There's no name." Daisy Kenyan has been bought by 20th Century...
...BUSH - Matthew Head - Simon & Schuster ($2). On Hooper Taliaferro's military mission into the Congo he stumbles across a marvelously carved ceremonial knife, two beautiful women and an evil old man. Un fortunately, this fine, assorted bag of jungle specimens includes one moth-eaten item: a thin, conventional plot of seduction and murder that has been used inumpteen whodunits with less glamorous settings. Verdict: fair...