Word: thin
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...west of the "Far West," and the East Coast is one of the westernmost parts of the Western world. Don't worry, though: according to a U.S. President, yes means no in the East anyway, while in the more logical West, "a fat chance" means a very thin...
Kids, don't try this at home: Penn State University scientists have created thin layers of diamond by the unlikely technique of cooking carbon-rich plastic, mixed with potassium and sodium and blasted with a beam of ultrasound, at low temperature in a regular home oven. The result is a low- grade but authentic form of diamond. If the quality can be improved, plastic-derived diamond could provide a cheap, strong coating for everything from airplane windows to drilling tools...
Poring over a maze of call sheets and whip counts at his Oval Office desk, Clinton saw his thin majority evaporate into a crushing 30-vote defeat. He looked up and appealed to higher powers. "Where are the votes going to come from now?" he implored. "Where are we going to get them? They're just not there...
...suddenly noticed "how thin she looked through the face...
...advertising is stupid. There's one commercial that I keep seeing, which shows the picture of a thin, buxom woman an clad in a white swimsuit diving into a pool, superimposed on an image of Crystal Pepsi being poured. Is Pepsico trying to equate Crystal Pepsi with water? If I wanted to drink water, I would buy water, not Pepsi...