Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of Frost. Of all the queens in Rome's market, none was tougher or shrewder than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella. Left motherless at five, Nannarella worked the market with her father for years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time...
...four hours the departure was kept secret, then a brief bulletin issued by the Tanjug agency broke the news to a startled Yugoslavia and a wondering world. Eight days earlier Khrushchev had flown just as suddenly into Belgrade, under the thin pretense of taking a vacation (TIME, Oct. 1), and had remained in close conclave with Tito. The flight to Yalta provoked wide and wild speculation in the world's capitals. Western diplomats, normally an "I told you so" lot, frankly confessed bafflement. None offered a better guess as to its cause than that of one Belgrader: "Something serious...
...three judges, and proceedings were open to three Western legal observers and twelve Western correspondents. Witness after witness described the travail of interrogation by the secret police. The most telling indictment of all came from Janusz Suwart, 22-year-old son of a former Polish Communist. He is a thin, passionate youth with deep-set eyes and pale face. Here is how he answered when the prosecutor asked derisively: Isn't it true that you have already served two years in prison for theft...
Next, there was Sir Winston's daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular...
...Crimson soccer team, the image of an umbrella must come to Bruce Munro's mind. For when he thinks of his team on the field, he can visualize strength all the way across his forward line, and a solid handle at the goal, but the team is very thin through the middle, in the halfbacks and fullbacks...