Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office. Although the warning alarms in the White House began shrieking the day after the November election, the response so far has been slow and piecemeal. As the leader of our government, President Clinton should take heed to the crisis at hand and realize that he is treading on thin...
...community; she was not a member of any of the social clubs. The live-in maid next door says Lisa rarely left the house. When she did, she wore jeans and T shirts or athletic sweats--and according to the apartment building's security guard, "her face looked angry, thin and pale." Apart from her husband, she seemed to have only one other constant friend, a woman who may later have helped the Leesons with moving arrangements when they fled Singapore...
...other side--a prospective soul mate? A future spouse? A freak? And why are they making those oh-so-strange sounds? Be warned: alarms may blare when you open the door, but these threats are barren, at most. You may find that the door, no matter how thin, separates you from your neighbor for a reason...
...downside of Thin Wall Syndrome intensifies particularly when bedrooms or common rooms are adjoined to bathrooms. "The boy next to us has a piano or a keyboard in his room," Lowellite Megan DuBose '97 said. "Whenever we go into the bathroom, it's like we have a stereo in there. I feel a little self-conscious going to the bathroom. Like the other day, I could hear the beeps on his computer. Now, if I can hear those beeps, then I know he can hear us going to the bathroom...
...typically Canadian fashion, the company was far too polite to take any overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree He was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we swore we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob Him, like a dam waiting to burst. We looked at each other, wondering who would be first to release the floodgate...