Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we can look forward to a tranquil world so long as the Soviet Union operates in its present form. The only hope, and this is a fairly thin one, is that at some point the Soviet Union will begin to act like a country instead of a cause...
...Razor-Thin Profits. The terrorists' increasingly flagrant acts have finally spurred aging President Juan Peron, 78, to action. And well they should. One high American executive estimated that the kidnapings have already caused 60% of the foreign businessman in Argentina to leave the country in the past year. If the abductions continue, they could jeopardize an economy already deeply troubled by razor-thin profits and lack of capital investment by private industry. Prodded by such concerns, Peron reversed his benign neglect of Argentina's frightened foreigners and made a point of receiving the Ford vice president for Asia...
...supercar with the name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors and the indelible clack of skeletons rising from granite tombs. Dashiell Hammett's detectives, Sam Spade, The Thin Man and The Fat Man, gave audiences a private eye and earful; other ops-Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance and Martin Kane-were even more hardboiled. Ben Hecht himself could not glamorize the press as well as oldtime radio. Britt Reid (the true identity of the Green Hornet) was a newspaperman...
...writing nevertheless has given him some problems lately. Last year, after ten years as lecturer in sociology at the University of Chicago and eight futile attempts to win faculty appointment, Greeley left the university, charging it with anticlericalism. Critics counter that Greeley has simply spread himself too thin as a popular writer to warrant professorial tenure...
According to Revel's interpretation of the photos, the cell sprouts thin, veil-like folds along its forward edge-that is, in the direction of movement. These folds or ruffles grow upward, extend out like an arm and then drop to the surface, adhering firmly to it. Once the forward edge is anchored, the cell flows into and over the ruffles, almost as if it were pulling itself along. As the body of the cell moves over the folds, other ruffles grow along the cell's new leading edge, and in turn attach themselves to the surface. Thus...