Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people against tax cuts? Lu-bell's subjects gave three principal reasons: i) the individual family's slice would be too thin to make much difference; 2) tax cuts would be of no direct help to the unemployed; and 3) "the country needs the money." An Iowa milkman, a Georgia welder, a Texas printer, a California autoworker and a New Jersey insurance salesman all used almost identical words: "It would help me personally, but how can the Government run without money? And what will we do about the Russians...
...jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow, thin-haired Kadar. without a blink at the sepulchral irony of his own words: ''The Hungarian people will never forget that Soviet troops liberated our country...
Besides being useful for tracking the tiny sphere by radio, the transmitters report the temperature inside it. The surface of the sphere is made of shiny aluminum covered with a thin coat of silicon monoxide. This material is transparent to visible light from the sun, which it permits the polished aluminum to reflect back into space. But it looks black to the long infra-red (heat) waves. Since black surfaces radiate well, it permits the satellite to get rid of its internal heat by radiation. The system seems to be working well. Both transmitters have reported that the temperature inside...
Poised in the midst of the last-minute clutter and confusion stands the U.S. Pavilion, a soaring, airy, translucent drum, delicately resting on thin steel columns now getting their final golden lacquer (see color pages). Before it, workmen are completing the paving, preparing a 230-ft.-long reflecting pool to receive its fountains. Electricians are adjusting the lights that will shine on the 130 Belgian apple trees due to burst into bloom at about the day the fair opens. Nearly as vast as the width of Rome's ancient Colosseum, which inspired it, combining dignity, symmetry and an inviting...
...cackle-edge scythe. And Eula Varner, she of the "kaleidoscopic convolution of mammalian ellipses," is divided into two slender young beauties named Lee Remick and Joanne Woodward-but Woodward plays her part with a fire and grace not often seen in a movie queen. And old Will Varner, "thin as a fence rail and almost as long," is transmogrified into the Falstaffian figure of Orson Welles -but Welles, in the first role he has done for Hollywood since Moby Dick, demonstrates decisively that if in the meantime he has scarcely improved as an actor, he is in any case...