Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Subway. On Monday of last week, a thin-nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
...each department, men are interested in the temperatures of things they can't touch, Professor Donald H. Menzel wants to explain the temperature of the corona, a collar of thin gas around the sun. Professor Louis C. Graton wants to find the temperature of geyser holes...
...people this week it was the time of the Hanami (flower viewing). The Japanese left their wretched, paper-thin houses and their half-ruined factories; chattering with delight, they roamed across the broad lawns of their public gardens to view the flowers of spring. City folk flocked to the beaches. Up & down the jagged, black-sanded coast, fishermen pushed off their squat wooden boats. Farmers tirelessly slushed through their rice fields as they had always done...
...huge, high-ceilinged Salle Pleyel, Paris' Cartiegie Hall, the thin, chirping syllables swooped and soared from the public-address system like some kind of static. Finally, the record scratched to an end. Some 2,000 delegates to the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, realizing that the speech was over, applauded madly...
...Thin Victory. In the 1940 election, Muñoz' Populares squeezed out a thin victory. He became Senate president and, in effect, the real ruler of Puerto Rico...