Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first session opened, an affable, jaunty Nixon, looking thin but fit, sat down confidently. When the final session ended the next day, Nixon rose, pale and shaken. The ordeal "took a lot out of him," said one close associate. "It was very rough." Although grand jury testimony remains secret unless it is introduced in a trial or ordered released by a judge, it is known that Nixon was questioned closely about four matters still under investigation by the special prosecutor's office...
Night Moves is a pretty thin action movie, and when events happen there's no lightning and thunder, no tears. The world it portrays is full of weak and ineffectual people who can't make a difference. But somewhere in the back of the mind a little man with a briefcase scurries in late and drops off a file full of sobering things...
Dafal found them. Stick-thin and lemur-eyed, he was the Daniel Boone of southern Mindanao, a solitary Filipino who wandered an unexplored 600-sq. mi. tract of rugged mountain jungle. One day in the early '60s, he followed a trail of strange footprints. Three small brown men, naked except for loin pouches made of leaves, were digging up a large root with a sharp stick. When they saw him, they fled like monkeys. Shouting reassurance, Dafal gave chase until the men stopped in a stream bed, trembling...
...order to embarrass Rabin, might have leaked stories to the effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors, military units had never been brought up to the strength allowed under the 1974 disengagement agreement. Washington was aware...
...attention at club functions--110 at the big annual dinner. 60 Harvard grads and 50 wives--and a couple of affairs with Harvard luminaries like the luncheon with John H. Parry. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, that attracted only 40 members. "Maybe we are spreading ourselves too thin?" he asks. "But we are still an active organization...