Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the busiest official in Washington last week was James Vincent Forrestal, 52, a slight, slender man with a broken nose, a man who once told an interviewer that his hobby was "obscurity...
Late in 1916, after serving a tour of duty along the Mexican border, young Lieut. Bradley married his high-school classmate, slender, pretty Mary Elizabeth Quayle, daughter of his Moberly Sunday School teacher. Mrs. Bradley, who insists that she loved all their Army posts-even Brookings, S.D.- is now living at West Point. Their only daughter, Elizabeth, is to be married in June to Cadet Henry Shaw Beukema, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, the Academy's famed geopolitical lecturer (and another 1915 classmate...
...Blood. President Martínez is a mystic who came to power in 1931. He first won election as Vice President, then arranged an army revolt, kicked out the President and took over the country. A dark and slender Indian who calls himself a theosophist, he used to proclaim: "The invisible legions follow me." After twelve years of his rule, his countrymen are ready to believe...
Delfino v. Dafoe. Last July the prosperous Diligentis were vacationing in a fashionable resort in the Córdoba Hills, 400 miles from Buenos Aires. The Señora, who was expecting, came down to Buenos Aires for a routine check-up by slender, capable Midwife Ana Delfino. Her personal calculations allowed her 20 days, but the midwife knew better, put her to bed at once in her own house. At 9 a.m. on July 15, 1943, little Franco arrived, followed at 20-minute intervals by María Fernanda, Carlos Alberto, and María Ester...
...Short, slender, tongue-cheeked Columnist Fisher quickly skirts the dangers to a free press inherent in mass misinformation and in mass-distributed opinion slanted to particular ends. He passes on to a detailed study of his voluble subjects-"faulty and imperfect souls, no matter what their clients believe." Some of the Fisher findings...