Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the depletion of its already thin cross-country corps because of injuries, the Radcliffe ski team turned in an impressive third-place finish in last weekend's Bates Women's Invitational at Auburn, Maine...
...Thin Profits. Volvo's high prices are largely the result of a 40% raise in Swedish labor costs in the past two years. To contain the damage to sales, Volvo has absorbed some of the cost in export markets, rather than pass on the full rise in prices charged to foreign buyers. Result: Volvo's 1976 profits of $136 million were only 3.7% of sales, v. 10% in 1972 and 1973. Profits on export sales to North America and Western Europe were a paper-thin...
...were watching the madness, the contrived madness of the Ford Youth outside across the thin air-conditioned glass membrane. But it seemed the true madness was inside. Ford disappeared into the Muehlbach, Harry Truman's old hotel, and the onlookers began to disperse. My friend and I left the bar. The little girl was still delivering her spiel...
...Elis held a razor-thin lead through the early going, as midway through the first half Hooft netted a reverse layup to make it 14-12 Yale. Three minutes later, Jonas Honick swished a 20-footer to cut the lead to 18-17. the Crimson finally went ahead when Jeff Hill caromed home a 15 footer to make...
...speaker designated "Mouth" commits an extended monologue on the shock she felt when she found herself talking out loud after a mute childhood. She speaks in short, half-connected bursts, yet Beckett's stingy way with words captures her existence fully:"... parents unknown ... unheard of... he having vanished ... thin air ... no sooner buttoned up his breeches... she similarly... eight months later ... almost to the tick ... so no love ... spared that ... no love such as normally vented on the ... speechless infant..." In a phrase as simple as "spared that," Beckett blends savage humor and poignancy...