Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrary, New York's pennies must have been worn thin and Texas' characteristically outsized. A pound of pure pennies, fresh from the mint, is worth...
...this week Andy May was looking tired, old and sick. With the Garssons' own defense still to come, it would be at least a fortnight before the verdict was in. But Andy May's bluster was wearing thin. As the cross-examination wound up, the best he could muster was a threat to summon the full membership of his old committee, if necessary, to attest to his personal integrity...
...irony, Rosebury & Kabat-who know as well as anyone, and better than most, that there are "portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...
Probably the main trouble is that Portrait in Black literally talks itself out of being exciting enough. All the characters are so frightfully conversational that they eventually slow down the pace and thin out the action...
...America's, which had fallen behind by about a week's supply in its deliveries of food. But the new crack and the panic in Germany pointed up the instability of. Western Democracy's whole front. Around the world the margin of economic safety was thin...