Word: thumbnailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's diplomatic cleanup man had another vanquished crisis under his belt. Beaming baronially as he deplaned in Amsterdam last week after an 8,900-mile flight from Batavia, hump-nosed, ruddy Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr in his pre-peerage days) gave a thumbnail report on his Indonesian peacemaking excursion. The Indonesians, he said, "really want the Dutch to stay." Indonesian Premier Sjahrir is "wise, cool and reasonable." Modestly he summed up his own efforts-to create an atmosphere in which the Indonesians and The Netherlands Indies Acting Governor General van Mook could get together. "It cost...
Halder's thumbnail sketch of Hitler: "The man was a thorough liar, absolutely untrustworthy and completely allergic to reasoning when it was a question of criticizing his pet ideas. His military capabilities were those of a mediocre corporal...
Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...
...brought Britain through the greatest war in its history reported last week to the nation. In a 35-minute speech, marked by a halting delivery as if he were very tired, Prime Minister Winston Churchill: ¶Reviewed Britain's heroic role in a thumbnail history of World...
Crowe croaked: "First thing you do, cut off that hanging thumbnail. It's damned annoying." Leatherneck's Career. Like many an other famed Marine (e.g., Generals "Lem" Shepherd and "Red Mike" Edson, Colonel "Chesty" Puller), Kentucky-born Jim Crowe started in the ranks. He was an enlisted man up to 1934, when he became a Marine gunner (warrant officer). After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned a captain ("I was never a lousy second looey...