Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill's editorial-improvement campaign at the News has some distance to go. The paper still has only two full-time foreign correspondents (v. 30 for the Times). Its business section is a pitifully thin single daily page, and the paper could use some thoughtful columnists to supplement its brief editorials...
What is a potato chip? For more than a century after an American Indian chef named George Crum first deep-fried leaf-thin slices of raw potato in his hotel kitchen in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the answer seemed obvious. Recently, however, the definition of a chip has become controversial. Reason: products like Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips, made by Procter & Gamble Co. out of a dehydrated mash of cooked potatoes and marketed in tennis-ball-like cans. Newfangled chips have a long shelf life and can be shipped over long distances without breaking. Put into national distribution this year...
...debate made good political sense, the S.N.P. felt that Wilson was dragging his feet on the controversial issue. S.N.P. Whip Douglas Henderson warned that his party would seek the "right opportunity" to defeat the government in a vote of noconfidence, thereby forcing new elections. Although Labor has a paper-thin margin of one in the 635-member House, it is unlikely that the angry Scots can rally all the non-Labor M.P.s to bring the government down. In any case, it would not help much because they are even cooler to the Scots' cause than are many Laborites...
...cautious pilot to change course and head back to Lisbon. Ironically, the jumbo jet was packed with leftist dignitaries from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Viet Nam who were heading to Luanda to attend the M.P.L.A.'s independence festivities. Thus the ranks of visiting VIPS in Luanda were embarrassingly thin...
...Yalies are wont to espouse the stereotype of the condescending Harvard pseudo-intellectual, as in the following excerpt from a Yale student's report of the first Harvard-Yale game: "If we were to paint the typical Harvard student, we should draw him as a gentlemanly fellow with a thin veneering of respectibility, and an amazing amount of superficial knowledge, who, angry at a man would think, 'he's a low fellah, you know,' ... and who, immediately after death, would ... congratulate the Almighty for having made...