Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlikely that his predecessors' fate was closing in on Beria.* The thin man with the bourgeois pince-nez was still alternate on the all-powerful Politburo, a vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, a marshal of the Soviet Union. Last fortnight he was nominated for re-election to the Supreme Soviet on a special list of handicappers' choices which also includes Candidates Stalin and Molotov. A native of Georgia like his boss, whom he once lionized in an apple-polishing history, Beria joined the C.H.E.K.A...
...Sunday night after his resignation, Charles de Qaulle spent hours alone in his study at the Neuilly villa. At 2 a.m. a few watchers saw his long, pencil-thin silhouette at his lighted bedroom window. For a long time he gazed into the night...
...Emperor' Hiromichi (meaning Way of the Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...
Unhappiest man in Rome the day the list came out was Signor Gammarelli, the thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there...
...Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his good friend Sebastian took to drinking on the sly. "My dear, such a sot," said Anthony Blanche. "Sip sip, sip like a dowager, all day." But when Ryder visited Brideshead, the magnificent family mansion, he was astonished to find that "religion predominated in the house," that the family diversified its sins with daily...