Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Hopkins, at 51, does not look like the kind of man Louie Macy would look at. His face, sallow and lined by illness, is not so much against him socially as his restless, jittery wriggling which keeps his suits wrinkled and baggy. His thin, straggly hair is combed carefully over a growing bald spot...
Rommel never tells his men that the British are pushovers. He tells them that the British are tough-and that they, the thin, hard young elite of Germany, must be tougher...
...Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the A.V.G. will come out to rescue them. When the A.V.G. is busy elsewhere, they manage to get through anyhow...
...look at all like I sound," he began. "I sound short and I'm tall. I sound thin and I'm fat. I sound Dutch and I'm German...
...thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...