Word: slenderization
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...flight had disconcerted Germany too much for it to be an elaborate ruse; that he was no ordinary turncoat eager to aid his country's enemies, or the British would not have been so puzzled; that Hess's peace plan, if he had one, had not a slender chance of winning acceptance...
...exclusive Eastern prep schools. He also introduced the Richards Plan, a highly successful system of rotating class periods and supervised study. Last week Big Dick, wasted by an illness in which he had lost 45 lb., announced that in July he would turn over his job to a successor: slender, athletic Harvardman E. Francis Bowditch, 29, now headmaster of Indianapolis' Park School...
...shipyards, 260 miles to Seattle's Boeing bomber plants, the work could not stop. The roustabouts, cat jockeys, bulldozers, greasers, welders, dynamiters, mixers, drillers, riggers, still pressed for time, worked on, unmindful of little ceremonies and speeches before movie cameras. With the precise delicacy of spider legs, the slender, giant cranes moved steadily on, lifting twelve-ton buckets of concrete to pour on the dam's western heights. "Dinky" skinners drove trains of concrete buckets over the sky-high trestle; tin-helmeted shove runners and gear-jammers, tools in their belts, plowed on with their job: to move...
...formally expel him. He demanded formal expulsion. Instead, red-faced John T. Whitaker was told with Italian finesse: "You are not expelled, but you must leave." Pressed, Italian officials finally set the time limit for Correspondent Whitaker's departure at "about ten days." To the credit of tall, slender, wavy-dark-brown-haired Oustee Whitaker is a recent realistic work Americas to the South (Macmillan; $2.50), which he wrote on a tour of duty for the Daily News in South America (1938-39) before he was given the thankless Rome trick...
Already groups of short, swarthy French mannequins, whose figures and complexions resemble those of swank Latin women, are touring South America under Nazi auspices, showing models flown in German and Italian planes from conquered Paris. The tall, slender, pink-&-white-complexioned Willingdon mannequins will show models just created by the London branches of Worth, Paquin, Molyneux and Lachasse, plus others by Norman Hartnell, Victor Stiebel, Digby Morton, Peter Russell and tweedy Creed...