Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a Buenos Aires court issued a writ of habeas corpus for Mariquita. She left the ship (see cut, p. 27), telling news men in a thin, frightened voice: "They won't succeed. . . . Somehow I'll find a way to escape if they put me on board again by force...
...books that were small, cheap, popularly written. He supported himself through publishing, cleared $150,000 to spread his cause. Not all the 400 books he wrote or published were religious-one was Primitive Physick, a book of home remedies (example: "The Head Ake: Apply to each Temple the thin yellow Rind of a lemon, newly pared off") that went through more than 40 editions...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
...antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
Ferrero, a tall, thin, professorial man with a white, Trotskyesque goatee, is now 70, has a daughter in the U.S. But he refuses to leave Europe. He feels that somebody must remain there to bolster the courage of Europeans who think as he does...