Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beefs & Boredom. The Truman special, the newsmen generally agreed, was badly run. Texts of the nightly speeches were handed out at the last minute. Moreover, in spite of all the rushing, the news was so thin that some of the 41 newsmen aboard had been told by their offices to keep it brief. The total daily file off the train was down to 75,000 words, only half the "copy drop" from Tom Dewey's train. Between stops, the reporters never visited Mr. Truman in his armored car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He had not wandered up their way since...
Outside the open prison door they found a fat Sternist with thin red hair, lazily cracking fried watermelon seeds between his teeth. When a prison warden barred their entrance, the journalists appealed to the Sternist. He ushered them in and rounded up some fellow prisoners for a press conference. Prison guards fretfully pleaded that this was against regulations. Some prisoners crossed the square and returned with bottles of cold beer for their friends; they used the handle of the jail door as a bottle opener...
...Evidence. If this evidence seemed a little thin, the government could also argue that the Apristas must have known that only a successful revolt could save them politically. In recent months, their power and prestige had slipped badly. For the impending elections to the Constituent Assembly, all other political groups had combined against them. Moreover, they were almost certain to be convicted of direct connection with the murder of La Prensa's right-wing Publisher Francisco Graña, shot down in front of his office. The Grana murder had been a political cause...
...young teacher in 1886, Jones had his own vision during a solitary walk in the foothills of the Alps: "I felt the walls grow thin between the visible and the invisible, and there came a sudden flash of eternity, breaking in on me. I kneeled down then and there in that forest glade, in sight of the mountains, and dedicated myself in the hush and silence, but in the presence of an invading life, to the work of interpreting the deeper nature of the soul, and direct mystical relation with God, which had already become my major interest...
...Long, thin, skinny ones and big, round, fat ones swathed themselves in the "Old Look" yesterday, and the inter-House football league ambled off into another rough and tumble season...