Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went up to the waterfront to look for Rocchi (the anticlerical artisan who repaired the clock). I didn't want to arouse suspicion by asking, so I had some difficulty in locating his shop. Finally, on the fourth approach, there was Rocchi, working away. Near him was a thin man who I thought from the description I had might be one of the councilors, and then I overheard a conversation which was music to my ears. Said Rocchi: 'I wasn't going to do it for a priest. You should have heard him.' And here...
...treaty he wanted: one-third of the world's nations (and Canada if it liked) would bind themselves to resist attack against any one of them, whether by an outside country or by a member republic. Again & again the Argentines had given in on committee disputes. Sharp, thin Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia, sipping maté from a gourd in his Suite 400, had reined in his delegates. His orders flashed by day and by night. An Argentine delegate skidding down the fourth-floor corridor in his shorts to respond to a late-night summons nearly bowled over...
...Washington conference was generaled by U.S. Treasury Secretary John Wesley Snyder, a rather unimaginative banker, and by Sir Wilfrid Eady, whose thin face, horn-rimmed spectacles and realistic command of facts make him the embodiment of the British civil servant. The details of the talk between them and their experts the world did not hear. But it heard much of the $3,75° million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could...
...bouncy, talkatively intense 40, Leneman is proud of being a family man (three children) as well as an artist. Explaining that he scratches thin lines with his fingernails, he adds, with a wistful look at his chubby hands, that his nails used to be longer "but I always scratched my wife and she made me cut them...
...Byoir, Hughes turned up at the hearing room with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...