Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin man stood by the window, fingering a cigaret, inhaling smoke steadily in long, deep drags, his hot brown eyes staring across Michigan Boulevard's river of traffic, across the concrete esplanade that bridges the railroad tracks, and out to the blue peace of Lake Michigan...
...thin man's thoughtful eyes were tired, his scanty hair disordered on his pallid skull. His bony shoulders drooped like a weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...
...time Nazi pressure, applied by Count von Schulenberg, began to be felt by the Communist authorities, the imprisoned Radziwills had become thin and emaciated. Suddenly their Moscow prison rations were changed from short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...
...into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next day Sir Andrew encountered the Italians, who had ventured out with two of their six battleships, the fast but thin-skinned Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour, together with some heavy (10,000-ton) cruisers and usual destroyer and submarine auxiliaries...
...being persecuted here in America today. Although the German-Ameri-cans represent 25% of the voters, our representation in government is far below that figure." Thus last week in Chicago did thin, baldish Dr. Walter H. Silge address the members of the German-American National Alliance. Although the doctor was not on the air, his remarks were typical of the propaganda that the G. A. N.A. broadcasts daily over Station WHIP in Hammond...