Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution's case was clear enough. The mess sergeant testified that Pfc. God, knife in hand, had removed the eyes in thick wedges, sliced off random peels in flat slabs (instead of removing them nice and thin). Then the mess sergeant, armed with a potato and peeler, earnestly re-enacted the whole business, slashing ruthlessly away until the potato looked like a candidate for a shoestring...
Early one Saturday last May, a thin, grim line started forming outside the Royal Opera House at London's Covent Garden. All through the long Whitsun weekend it sweltered and swelled, until, the following Tuesday, tickets went on sale for the first London performance of Cherubini's Medea in 89 years. Within three hours every seat in the house was sold out. Last week the lucky ticket holders finally got a look at what they had battled so tenaciously to see: Maria Meneghini Callas in the role of Euripides' savagely tormented heroine...
...stub as a regular, much less than a regular if smoked only for 1⅞ inches, the usual length of a smoke for regulars. Convinced that the trouble comes in the last few puffs,* the tobacco monopoly took ads to warn, "Don't get too close," printed two thin rings on its king sizes at 1⅞ inches to show where the cigarette should be stubbed out. But Swedish smokers cynically saw the campaign as a means of selling more cigarettes, puffed right on past the new warning rings...
...cosmic rays are the protons that were expelled from galactic units to make their interiors electrostatically neutral. Those expelled from big units have the highest energy, perhaps many billion billion volts. They cross intergalactic space at close to the speed of light. They are not bothered much by the thin hydrogen gas between the units; they can travel through it for trillions of years without encountering anything that will check their progress...
...with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook for thin persons is more favorable." That average weights are so much less in the most aged might indicate that these individuals have actually lost some weight, but more significant, Dr. Master suggested, is the fact that the fat die younger...