Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like skaters racing over thin ice, the candidates competing for their party's presidential nomination have never known when, without warning, they might be plunged into icy water. All were concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court would invalidate the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, which not only defined the rules for raising and spending money, but for the first time made available sizable federal subsidies...
...pale, thin, almost inconspicuous Patty sat attentively through the open sessions, the theatrical Bailey attracted more press attention than his client...
...uses. Boeing has already developed a smaller version of its original jumbo jet called the 7475P. It will carry 100 fewer passengers (capacity: 280 seats), burn 10% less fuel and fly much faster than its parent. These advantages persuaded Pan Am officials to stretch the airline's thin financial resources to lease five of the planes for the New York-to-Tokyo run. Boeing also plans a brand new 180-to 200-seat medium-range 7X7, which should roll off the production lines in the early 1980s-just in time to compete with McDonnell Douglas...
...only begun. Back at the beginning, the skater shifts to the left skate and goes over the same pattern (still skating backward), this time starting on the inside and changing to the outside edge. The exercise is repeated three times on each foot. The ultimate goal-a single, thin track left...
...which he, of course, has sole control-quite evenly. Henriette may have been frank in her displeasure with Georges, but he can dish it out too. Looking at the lady on her deathbed, he writes, "You haven't aged in my eyes. You've always had that thin face, that lusterless complexion, those lips that widen now and then...