Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with help from Swampy Donald and Floyd Bevens (they had nine wins between them, four defeats). Detroit had the best southpaw in the business, Lefty Hal Newhouser (9-4), with three stalwarts to lick him up. Also comfortably ahead of their bat ting competition: the Athletics' tall, thin submariner, Russ Christopher (10-2); Washington's knuckleballer Dutch Leon...
...night, at a state dinner in Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, the General surreptitiously flipped an olive pit at his two married daughters, blew kisses, beamed happily at his wife. But as he rose to speak -still wearing his pistol-tears rolled down his cheeks and his high, thin voice grew almost inaudible. He sat down after less than five minutes, put a big handkerchief to his face. Then he lighted a big cigar...
...Prime Minister had achieved in 1940, when his Liberal Party won 178 of the 245 House of Commons seats. The electorate, while approving King for a sixth term, took the opportunity to admonish him at the same time. He won a clear, overall majority, but it was by a thin margin. For that margin of victory he had old stand-by Quebec to thank. That French Canadian province, the Liberal Party's counterpart of the U.S. Democratic Party's "solid south," handed him most of its 65 seats...
...bite fever, the original wound heals temporarily, later opens again, larger and more angry-looking, a rash develops, temperature rises to 103° or 104° F., falls to normal in a couple of days, then rises again in cycles which may recur for months. The patient may grow thin, have muscle pains, delirium, arthritis. Treatment is similar to that for syphilis and saves nearly every case...
Meat-hungry U.S. citizens were served a thin slice of good news last week. But before they could chew it well, bad news ruined the taste. The OPA would hopefully try to distribute more evenly what limited meat supplies there are. Meanwhile, during July, August and September, the U.S. would halt all meat shipments abroad for Lend-Lease and relief...