Word: slenderness
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...Slender Thread. Luckily for Konz and his New York-bound fellow pilots, it was a sparkling night, and they could see one another hovering over the darkened city. "You know, we're living on a very slender thread," he said. "If the weather had been bad instead of extremely good, there could have been a disaster...
...reels of a tape recorder silently begin to turn. Then, reaching up his sleeve, he pulls out the tip of a 16-in. long microphone gun, shelters it with his palm and points it at the stage. In the orchestra seats, a woman wraps her program around a slender microphone, switches on a tape recorder hidden in her bulky handbag, and settles back...
Last week, shoulder to shoulder in a line of 80, the police were still systematically advancing over the moors, plunging slender canes into the soggy peat, then sniffing their tips for the telltale stench of putrescent flesh. Near by huddled newsmen, cameramen and private ghouls who have converged on the neighborhood, jamming local hotels, emptying stores of boots and galoshes, and quite un-mystically sending auto-rental rates...
Scottish Novelist Muriel Spark has never been particularly fond of any of her characters. At best, she regards them with amused detachment, and in such finely spun structures of malice as The Bachelors and The Girls of Slender Means, she meticulously exposed their peculiarities and quivering insecurities. Unhappily, in this, her eighth and longest novel, Novelist Spark finally pays dearly for her indifference. She is obviously much more interested in the sights and sounds on both sides of the Mandelbaum Gate, which separates Israel and Jordan, than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that...
...turned the trick when he swore in as members of his new "coalition" Cabinet loannis Glavanis and Isador Mavri-doglou, two of the latest defectors from Papandreou's onetime majority party, the Center Union. They brought Stephanopoulos' total support in the 300-man Parliament to a slender majority ,pl 152. Before and during the noisy debate that led up to the final vote, Papandreou's men in Parliament were reduced to chanting insults and spreading the rumor that one of the defectors had died...