Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golden Gate Park under my pack. Its thin straps were already cutting into my shoulders and my sign that said "EAST" wasn't attracting too many rides. San Francisco had been a bad place to come to after leaving school in early October. I was getting out, leaving behind the violent hills that had screamed out of the earth in the quakes that threatened to push San Francisco into the Pacific, and I was going back home where the roads stretched between the corn fields and the small hills yawned...
Woodside was aware that new academic subjects face special prejudices, especially when they are closely related to controversial current events. He tried to tread a thin line between academic respectability and ideological honesty by going beyond the immediate events of the war to their context in Vietnamese culture...
...proudly described his collection of twenty legitimate albums and some sixty-odd bootlegs. Evens time Dylan sings a song differently Rick notes the change in his well-worn copy of Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan (It makes a great deal of difference, Ricks said, whether the Thin Main in the ballad is told that he should wear "earphones" or "telephones"-the issue being played with here is whether he should be totally shut off from the world or instead be forced into constant communication with it.) Ricks punctuated his scholarly criticism with exclamations of "Isn't that fantastic...
...quality of the newspaper, which staff members in all factioris consistently rate as very high (often calling the Real Paper the best-written newspaper in Boston). If it earns that distinction, it should be noted that the competition is not staff, and that the Real Paper is often thin and uninteresting (more so these days, some staffers admit, because of plunging morale...
...sheltered. Government troops must be demobilized and put to work. The shattered economy must be reconstructed; in particular the lush ricelands, which once yielded surpluses, must be restored to productivity. Order must be restored in the capital, swollen to three times its normal population. In a calculated effort to thin out teeming Phnom-Penh, presumably to get refugees into the countryside to plant rice in time for the rainy season and perhaps to facilitate the search for hidden government and army officials, rebel sound trucks rumbled through Phnom-Penh toward week's end, warning of immediate attack. Panicked, thousands...