Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their Korean War predecessors, perhaps because most of them, before the fall, were trained pilots and college-educated military career men. Most agree that their time of torture and isolation taught them much about self-reliance and the importance of thinking small. Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Joe Mobley, 36, a thin, balding man who greeted his friends on the first morning of the reunion wearing reverse-heel Earth Shoes and dungarees, still acutely remembers what seem like almost microscopic moments of prisoner austerity. "Your senses become keener," he explains. "You can feel the effect of an aspirin. You can smell...
...reclassification of gators as a threatened species has enabled Florida to hire trappers to thin them out in areas where they are causing serious problems. Even some conservationists support the trappers. Says Johnny Jones, executive director of the Florida Wildlife Association: "There are so many alligators that they are eating each other...
...intensity of solar disturbances accompanying the current sunspot cycle. More sunspots have appeared than were anticipated, great magnetic storms and solar flares are raging on the sun, and more charged atomic particles-which make up the solar wind-are being hurled into space. The stronger solar wind heats the thin gases in the outer fringe of the earth's atmosphere, which causes them to expand outward into the orbit of Skylab. That increases the drag on the craft...
...plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from the fleece-grading lecture. "Then I want to learn to weave. I've been to the library to get all these books...
...become more public, Brzezinski's confidence seems to have grown. He is still thin-skinned about press criticism and tries to trace the sources of critical remarks, and he is not very comfortable with Congressmen and Senators. To remedy that failing, Hamilton Jordan has been brought into foreign policy decision making...