Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Senate sputtered and raged, thin, harried George Allen, the ex-ambassador to Iran who took over the Voice after the silly broadcasts had been made, admitted the State Department's failure to monitor its own broadcasts. NBC, which conceded its own negligence, had already fired those responsible for the scripts. The whole graceless affair was a prime example of how Congress, in an election year, can hold itself at arm's length and punch its own nose. For Congress had 1) given the Voice so little money that it was unable to keep the frog...
Nightmarish Scenario. There were thin patches of silver, lining: i) Malan is fiercely antiCommunist, hates Soviet Russia even more than he hates Britain; 2) with a slim working majority in a time of world crisis, he may feel impelled, for a while at least, to go slow. But literate Britons in South Africa queasily remembered a book called When Smuts Goes-a lurid, Wellsian prophecy of South Africa's future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule...
...Alsop, now a thin-haired 37, became a journalist when his wealthy Connecticut family (kin to the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) decided that its fat and bookish son was good for nothing else. A discreetly pulled wire got him a job with the New York Herald Tribune. In its Washington bureau, where his first official appearance was at a White House party, he found politics more fun than Proust...
...Oscars" are chosen by moviegoers (polled by the London Daily Mail) instead of by their fellow workers, as in Hollywood. What is it about "dear Maggie" that makes her "the British shopgirl's dream?" She is no great beauty; her nose is sharp, her lips are thin, a large mole guards her left eye. And she is no great actress; most critics agree that ordinary is the word for Maggie's histrionics. Apparently, that's what makes her popular. Said a British producer: "She is really one of them. They feel that whatever happens...
Ordinary light knocks electrons from certain substances. The stronger the light, the more electrons it detaches. In the television "camera," a lens focuses a picture of the scene on a light-sensitive coating inside the pickup tube's front end. Electrons fly off. They are focused on a thin glass plate, each knocking off several more electrons, which are gathered up by a charged screen and drawn out of the tube...