Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once, energetic Eleanor Roosevelt, in San Francisco last week after her 23,000-mile voyage to Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific battle stations, looked tired. Reporters found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much-perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform...
Pacific Ways. Many units of the British Fleet, once desperately occupied in the Mediterranean, could now steam east to the Pacific front. British warships manned by veteran crews could be thrown against the Jap supply lines. To protect those lines the Jap fleet was already spread too thin...
...Fannin County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...heart of Mexico City's business district, in a showroom, a thin, redheaded man reclined on an adapted operating table. He was attired in rich oriental costume. Both his feet and one hand were nailed to blocks of wood, with long golden nails. He had been in that position for 488 hours and 45 minutes...
...long last the elders of Cobh cried that he had gone into thin air entirely. They threatened to withdraw their gift of the monument site. But Jerome Connor came forward again, with one of the most melodious of all his explanations...