Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, the thin half-smile he wore as flashbulbs assailed him was infuriating. But the paunch, the round and smooth face, the short, curly hair and calm manner all seemed far from menacing. Rather than sinister, Berkowitz looked innocuous, an unexceptional figure unlikely to attract attention anywhere. As the facts of his life began to emerge, the much-sought gunman turned out to be the loner the psychologists had predicted. He had apparently abandoned the few friends acquired in his earlier years, lived alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in suburban Yonkers, got along comfortably with fellow postal workers...
...moneymaker ever (box office receipts are $12 million a week), the movie industry is wasting no time jumping onto the spacewagon. 20th Century-Fox is already plotting its first Star Wars sequel, and other film makers are rushing to make their own sci-fi flicks before the fad wears thin. Judging from some of their plans, that may not take too long...
...doctors reported in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine the death rate from heart disease is lower in mountains because people get better exercise in the thin mountain...
...emergency meeting of 14 nations convened in Paris last week by the IMF, Witteveen, a thin, elegant figure who lives in Washington with his wife, spoke serenely to TIME about his economic philosophy and his religious convictions. Although he calls himself a liberal (he is a member of Holland's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy), and acknowledges an intellectual debt to Keynes, he nonetheless is a believer in the "market mechanism and the price mechanism...
Some reporters, however, complain that the addition of Living, Home and Weekend has stretched the news-gathering staff, for all its size, somewhat thin. Others note that the sections themselves are rather thin, and that Editors Annette Grant of Living, Nancy Newhouse of Home and Marvin Siegel of Weekend are reaching rather desperately for ever more trivial articles to fill them (last week's Living devoted an entire page to dill pickles). Still, one close reader agrees that the paper is not going soft. "People who run down the Times ought to have to compete with it every day," says...