Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov's harassed interpreter, Vladimir Nikolayevich Pavlov, is a pallid, thin fellow of 29. Pavlov sometimes translates for Stalin. But he is Molotov's man, accompanies him everywhere. At Yalta his penetrating voice pleased President Roosevelt because it was so easily heard. Pavlov speaks English with a decided British accent, but has an accurate ear for the idiom and nuances of American speech...
...Princess' face was white and tense, her thin hands clutched together. As she talked she tried to smile, but there was desperate urgency in her face. Her husband, even more distraught, muttered hoarsely: "But we had no part in it, no part...
...gingerly as they lit up again, Britons relaxed from their V-2 strain. The stratosphere siege had lasted seven months, and the noiseless rockets had worn Londoners' nerves thin. The V-2s started dropping the day after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament...
...Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff these were critical hours. With luck he might still get his troops safely across the Po, but German luck was wearing thin...
...first Frenchwomen also came home last week from the prisons of Germany. There were about 200 of them, prematurely aged, pitifully thin and tattered, some on stretchers, some barely able to walk. Charles de Gaulle greeted them. All Paris honored them with tears, tossed lilacs and lilies of the valley at their feet. Most of them were wives and daughters of executed resistance leaders...