Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles, and that the train ride is ten hours (as opposed to five by car), it's easy to deduce that you're trucking along at the estimable rate of 30 m.p.h. Any way you cut it, the company you choose will probably begin to wear a little thin...
...blood vessels are so thin-no thicker than an ordinary pencil lead -that the surgeon must peer through a microscope while joining them together.) Then, when the cerebral artery branch is undamped, additional blood spurts into the brain. Finally, the surgeon closes the hole by restoring the skin flap; usually the excised piece of bone is discarded, but patients rarely suffer any discomfort from the soft spot...
...super lightweight, super strong materials are here. Made of plastics reinforced by extremely thin strands of carbon, they are already being used in everything from aircraft parts to golf clubs and tennis racquets. Industry planners also have their eyes on hundreds of other products that could benefit from the versatile materials. But now warning flags have been raised about a troublesome effect of the fibers in the superplastics. Federal officials are so concerned that they have quietly ordered a high-level inter-agency study to decide how to reduce the potential hazard...
When James Jones died last year he was trying desperately to finish Whistle, his final installment of a trilogy begun with From Here to Eternity and extended through The Thin Red Line. Whistle, Jones wrote, would "say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have to say, on the human condition of war and what it means to us, as against what we claim it means to us." Measured against that aspiration, the book proves that Jones either had nothing more to say about war's meaning or else was silenced before his mission...
...first act has its highlights, though, as it features many of the show's most famous songs. Luckily, most of the cast members have strong voices. Karin Kasdin, as Jo Vanderwater, sings "Little Jazz Bird," and looks the part--tall and thin, gowned in white, her hair topped with a feather, she resembles a tip-toeing crane slinking unsuccessfully after her man. Laura Hastings, as Dick Trevor's true love, gives a beautifully evocative rendition of "The Man I Love," while spotlighted in cool blue light...