Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund languished, however, until last week, when a thin blonde woman in her early 20s walked into Davie's Sterling National Bank, mumbled something to a secretary, and left a package addressed to Robert Ruckman, the bank's president and the chief collector for the fund. In the package were $2,000 in twenty, fifty and one hundred dollar bills and a letter explaining the gift: "What the hell is happening in this country when a six-year-old child needs life-saving surgery and is denied treatment because some hospital demands a down payment on the inherent...
What stands now between Nixon and impeachment, suggest some of the opinion diagnosticians, is a thin tissue of personal well-being felt by most Americans. They still have it pretty good, and they don't want a change. But if too many of them lose their jobs or their mobility or their heat, then their fear and disillusion may be turned with even greater force on the man they see so often in their living rooms, who has disappointed them in so many personal ways...
Despite his notoriety, loannidis is a man few Greeks have actually seen. "Well, he is about 5 ft. 9 in. or 10 in. He is thin, looks about 52, and has graying hair," goes one grudging description. An austere, hard-lining rightist, who lives alone, loannidis is described by one Washington military official as "a real tough cookie." Other acquaintances emphasize his reputation for being wholly incorruptible...
...mobbed her limousine. Exhilarated, Callas declared: "I can go on from here. I thought at one time I would never beat my nerves, but I have." However, that was before the critics had their say. Unanimous in mourning the passing of a great voice, they described her performance as "thin, hesitant" and her top register as weak, even squally. The man from the Financial Times summed it up: "The effect was -well, as if the final duet of Carmen had been a record played on an old-fashioned gramophone...
...United States in Vietnam which uses smaller calibre ammunition fired at greater velocity than older rifles. The higher velocity of ammunition fired by the M-16 results in a significantly higher transfer of energy to human tissue on impact. Since the jacket covering the M-16 ammunition is extremely thin, it will "tumble," or break up, on body impact. The bullet creates a temporary cavity from which it slings tissues radially at high velocity, creating a strong shock wave in surrounding tissue with the result that distant blood vessels, nerves and bones may be unnecessarily injured...