Word: thin
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Overall, popular support for the President's position on Watergate is thin (see charts). Only 26% believe his repeated statements that he did not know about or take part in the coverup. Of those who had heard or read about Nixon's television speech (a significantly large 73% had done so), only 39% thought that he was telling the full truth. This figure increased by a negligible 1 % after his later press conference. The press conference did, however, provide one solid gain for Nixon: 22% of his listeners or readers said that they had greater confidence...
...watery brown eyes stare out from sockets sunk into folds of flaccid flesh. Thin purple veins straggle across the high cheekbones, so close to the surface that they almost seem etched on the first layer of skin. The second chin sags into a second throat. Black dye has been used on the swept-back hair, but the cosmetic is not enough. Juan Domingo Perón, almost 78, looks his age -and feels it. He tires easily; he has trouble concentrating. Yet he must try to marshal his failing faculties. Nearly two decades after he was run out of Argentina...
censure, although this one combined high comedy with tragic potential. A modified 707 belonging to Lebanon's Middle East Airlines was 87 minutes out of Benghazi on its way to Beirut when a thin, popeyed, bushy-haired man in a green striped suit whipped a brace of pistols out of his belt, charged into the pilot's cabin and told Captain Adel Kawas: "I want to go to Israel...
...grow. Now even Deryagin has washed his hands of polywater. In a recent scientific paper, reports Chemical & Engineering News, the Soviet researcher admits that it is nothing more than ordinary water contaminated by silicon. Where did the silicon come from? Apparently it was picked up in the hair-thin quartz tubes that he and other scientists used to produce the stuff from condensing water vapor. Comments Chemical & Engineering News...
...began digging, and within hours they had exhumed eight corpses from a 6-ft.-deep mass grave. All were teen-age boys; some were wrapped in plastic bags, others covered with lime to disguise the stench of decay. The corpses were stacked one above the other, separated only by thin layers of dirt...