Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader chosen, a messenger sped to bring the news to the Pope. Each elector kissed the hand of the new General in sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall, thin, pale, ascetic, 56-year-old ex-professor of canon law at Louvain University, later head of the Jesuit province of Northern Belgium...
Evans and Livingston are known in Hollywood as "comfort-station composers," because only paper-thin walls separate their hot little office from a studio men's room. Says Evans: "We are inspired by the cacophony of plumbing...
Behind the thin camouflage of a pseudo-liberal constitution and a National Front Government, Proconsul Tito shaped the government of the South Slav lands into a model Communist police state. His NKVD-trained secret police force, OZNA (Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...
Szyk, a round, bouncy little man with thin brown hair and thick glasses, thinks his most interesting project was the 38 miniatures of George Washington and His Times, which he finished in 1935. The set was presented to President Roosevelt by the Polish Government, and today hangs in Hyde Park. But the assignment Szyk enjoyed most was in 1924, when he was hired to paint El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakesh, Morocco. Sighs Szyk: "There were gazelles in the garden and dances of the bosom every night...
...Lafayette, Colo., a thin, recently tuberculous young doctor from Pennsylvania hung up his shingle above the general store one day in December, 1900. Lafayette (pop. 900) was a rough-&-ready coal-mining town. Dr. Victor Welsh Porter gave it rough-&-ready medicine...