Word: dwarfish
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...hrer, I congratulate you," said Hitler's dwarfish Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who had just ordered champagne. "Roosevelt is dead! It is written in the stars that the second half of April will be the turning point...
...food became a laughable luxury. The thin air sapped our strength, and it was enough to curl up early with a good book. The first two days of the trek were exhausting, as we ascended more than 2,200 meters. Vegetation dwindled from oaks and pines to oxygen-starved, dwarfish rhododendrons. To avoid altitude sickness, we began sleeping no more than 300 meters above the previous night's resting place. This meant some days of short treks simply to acclimatize. Hours were measured out with cups of tea and swapped books. At the Thangsing camp at 3,800 meters...
...American Toulouse-Lautrec ... an enchanting man. He had such appeal.... He had this enormous head and a very heavy beard that had to be shaved twice a day... And he was always rubbing his hands together. That was his great gesture when he was pleased." Meiser makes this exuberant dwarfish lad sound like the Rumplelstiltskin of the Upper West Side...
...chemistry” you may fear that we are ignoring an even more neglected group: the Dwarf Studies Department. The fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” or dwarf cinema classic Willow would be perfect for conference courses. And what about the effects of dwarfish imperialism on Keebler elf poetry? The philosopher race that are the Oompa-Loompas? The lines of intellectual inquiry are almost endless...
Riley glanced down the court at Van Gundy and sighed. The dwarfish, always poorly-dressed and poorly-coiffed genius had shown him the door for the second straight season. Small consolation: Van Gundy will never make the cover of Esquire...