Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston's Federal District Court last week a gaunt, haughty, thin-lipped man stood up to hear his sentence. He was Douglas Chandler, onetime newspaper reporter, American Lord Haw Haw, convicted as a common traitor (TIME, July 7). The judge gave him one more chance to speak...
...described by a recent victim: five to 15 hours of interrogation daily; during questioning prisoner sits under blinding arc lamps, hands flat on table; food is two thin slices of bread, jug of hot water daily, elaborately served by white-capped chef with retinue...
Strenuous Rest. At the fashionable Waldhaus in Sils, Switzerland, Conductor Klemperer was not very communicative about his wrestlings with the Einem score. He showed up in the hotel lobby in bright green corduroy shorts, white sleeveless shirt, his thin white legs encased in striped silk socks. Yes, he felt he needed a rest, he said. It was a strenuous rest: he was playing tennis, going for long walks, working on two compositions of his own, sitting up late alone evenings over a benedictine with mineral water in the hotel bar. Did he like Einem's opera? Klemperer was guarded...
Workmen are now shoring up the 54-year-old building which was discovered to be badly sagging several weeks ago. Although most of the plaster dust which caused the student protest has been removed in an intensive cleanup campaign, a thin layer still covers the corridors...
Suddenly, looming out of the fog, her captain saw above him the huge bow of a freighter. His thin-skinned warship plunged headlong into the 10,000-ton Yarmouth County, outbound at a cautious eight knots. Fifty feet of the Micmac's port bow was peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Jagged steel ripped through the arms and legs of seamen dozing on their mess deck. Crashing steel girders pinned others to the deck...