Word: thins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After you'd been chased by the Government for 15 years, brother, you'd be thin too," cracked Hallinan. That was good for a laugh. But as things stood in the fifth week of trial, the defense did not have much else to laugh about...
...bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube's expressive face and thin, agile limbs have helped launch slogans like "You'll get the lump from Tate, but State will give you the hump." A "Memo from Mr. Cube," hitting state controls, went to 5,000,000 voters...
...until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed too often...
...College of Medicine in Chicago has already proved to be a valuable instrument in the treatment of cancer. The first patient treated with it (TIME, Sept. 5) was Fordyce Hotchkiss, 72, a retired Railway Express employee who had an egg-sized cancer of the larynx. Last week Hotchkiss was thin and nervous, but his cancer was pronounced "healed...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...