Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When their voices were worn thin from piercing the smoke-filled hall, the curtain went up on a gay musical comedy featuring the adventures of a group of ship-wrecked survivors in the Dutch East Indies...
There was a time when Boggs worked for 32 doctors' offices at once, but an analysis of his own business showed he was wearing himself out and spreading himself thin for little extra profit. Last week, at 48, he was coasting along easily on twelve practices. He does not worry about his ideas getting abroad and spoiling business. Often a doctor, after months of coaching in Boggs ideas, thinks he can run his own practice, fires Boggs only to come back later with a new problem. Some doctors have rehired him as many as three times...
...Washington the ranks of home-front watchers-air-raid wardens, fire guards, auxiliary police, etc.-had become so thin that OCD officials asked the armed services for help in staging a thumping parade at month's end. Their hope: that the spectacle of Civilian Defense Volunteer Office uniforms and equipment, sandwiched in among warlike detachments of soldiers and sailors, would stimulate recruiting of home-defense workers...
Behind them, the "stage electrician" manipulated his switchboard. He could simulate every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...
Jekyll v. Hyde. Said one woman, listening unaware to her own voice (which other observers described as "tender, shy, lovely"): "A discouraged person, cowardly, and an unstable character." Said another woman, looking at her own hands: "Unintelligent . . . brutally sensual." Cried another, confronted by her handwriting: "The writing is so thin-dash it-that one cannot see it. It makes me quite dizzy. I cannot say anything about this handwriting. . . . No, leave me alone, please...