Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kelleher received 113 votes in Tuesday's Democratic primary in the Granite State. Two hundred years have apparently worn the Tory ranks thin...
...unpeels her silk dress, unpeels her skin. At the speed of light she slips toward my cold lips, takes a hit from my smoky mouth, whispering "Thin man. Thin man, talk me down...
...talks, Connally slowly works his way down the sofa toward the interviewer, telling how five top Michigan Republicans are urging him to get into the presidential race. His thin, somewhat sulky mouth and upturned nose give him a youthful look, even at 58. He had thought, Connally goes on, that Reagan would prove to be a more skillful campaigner than he has, better able to deflect the grilling of the press. Reagan's awkwardness has helped Ford recover and, according to Connally's appraisal, further reduced the chance of a political opening for anyone else...
...Guatemala City (pop. 1.5 million), damage ranged from cracked walls and broken windows in middle-class residential areas to the total destruction of entire blocks in the adobe-hut districts of the poor. Hundreds of corpses, covered only by thin sheets or plastic, lined the streets the morning after the initial quake. Surgeons from the capital's General Hospital performed operations-often without adequate equipment-in a field tent set up outside the damaged hospital...
...Glenn Turner, the Koscot cosmetics huckster from Florida, and became his lawyer and adviser. The Government charged Bailey also made speeches endorsing investments in Turner's franchises. When the law came down on Turner for conspiracy to defraud investors, Bailey was indicted too. The evidence against Bailey was thin, but he had to abandon virtually everything else and spend $350,000 and two years fighting the charges, which were eventually dropped after an eight-month trial in Florida ended in a hung jury in 1974. Although Associate Johnson kept the Boston office open, the Bailey firm all but withered away...