Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of these enemies was perhaps baffling to those investigating Tresca's murder. Said New York's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan: "It seems at some time or other, in politics and personalities, that Tresca was 'agin everything.' " Police had one important witness, several thin leads. A pistol had been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends...
...Thin, pale, 50-year-old Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. Her father was a jack of all talents who played five musical instruments, so disliked his father that he changed his name Buddington to Barnes. Djuna was named after Prince Djalma in The Wandering Jew, but her young brother's mispronunciation changed everything. She prefers to call herself The Barnes...
...sixth still consists of the thin sprinkling of pros from the Regular Army (14,659 officers in 1938) and a wartime addition of specialists appointed from civilian life to Engineers, Ordnance, Signal Corps, and other technical branches...
Above the thin shimmering water-slash of a rising moon, a U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap harbor at Rabaul one night several months ago to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique-"skip-bombing...
...thin-haired, bespectacled, 31-year-old Reshevsky lived in present-day Russia-where chess is the national pastime and people jam the streets to watch the moves of championship matches on giant dummy boards-he would be a national hero. But in the U.S., where chess has no more spectator appeal than calisthenics, Reshevsky is just another guy named...