Word: slenderization
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...almost twelve years Russia and its Baltic neighbor, Sweden, have been in a bitter dispute over the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, a slender, balding Swedish-legation attache who was picked up by Russian secret police in Budapest near the end of World War II. When the NKVD drove him off to Marshal Malinovsky's headquarters on Jan. 17, 1945, Wallenberg said: "I'm going to Malinovsky's . . . whether as a guest or prisoner I do not know yet." Those were the last words ever heard from...
...which is the traditional reward of a poet's poet. Daughter of an English schoolmaster, and a teacher herself from necessity, she could give useful lessons to all but a handful of poets now writing. Yet sales of her poetry, in the U.S. (if not in Britain), are slender, and it is not hard to see why. Few readers want to be so sharply reminded of the fact that life on earth is transient, and fewer still can distill comfort from the belief that birth is the beginning of death and death a return to the universal source...
...escort plane, the Seamaster had taken off from the Glenn L. Martin plant at Middle River, Md., on a routine test flight. As it yowled along at 22,000 to 25,000 ft. it was a thing of demonic beauty; with its 100-ft. swept-back wings, its slender 134-ft. hull and its four Allison J-71 jet engines, the seagoing bomber was capable of carrying a 30,000 Ib. pay load to 40,000ft. heights and at speeds over 600 m.p.h. Then, in an instant, the plane burst into flames, went out of control into a steep dive...
...Pope continued: "Too much blood has been unjustly shed! Too much mourning and slaughter has been suddenly renewed! The slender thread of confidence which had begun to reunite peoples and gave some comfort to souls appears to be broken . . . Can the world disinterest itself in these brothers, abandoning them to a fate of degrading slavery? Let all other problems be set aside . . . Perhaps if nations which sincerely love freedom and peace are united, this will be sufficient to induce those who break the fundamental laws of human understanding to milder counsels...
...tender and yet sharply disciplined, and in the upper reaches-shrill or not-she flashed a swordlike power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their ample, placid figures tones that esthetes call more beautiful. But just as the greatest beauties among women do not usually have flawlessly symmetrical features, the greatest voices are not characterized by a flawless marble perfection...