Word: thinned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presiding officer was neither shocked nor carried away by the incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...
...time the President was introduced, the crowd had begun to thin out. The President's high, flat voice was strong as he emphasized his theme: "We are determined to remain strong . . . to exercise [our] leadership on behalf of a world of peace. . . ." Slowly he measured off the three points on which he said U.S. power for peace depends: 1) unification of the armed services; 2) temporary extension of Selective Service; 3) universal military training. "Now, even in an election year like this, nobody should play politics with the national safety." There was no audible response...
Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
When the late Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey had to be forcibly ejected from a Cathedral service for vociferating against Manning's attacks on "companionate marriage." the thin-lipped Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might.'" That hymn might have been his motto in his battles with advocates of easy divorce, isolationists, opponents of pan-Christian unity, proponents of a Presbyterian-Episcopalian merger...
...shrunken body, doctors gave him large amounts of vitamin B complex, beef essence, apple pulp, plasma. Sulfa drugs and penicillin helped clean out the small army of virulent germs. Now Thin-Man Goddard has pushed his weight up to 121 Ibs. (normal: 156), and can walk a little. In two or three months, perhaps, he may leave the hospital...