Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procaine, into the upper eyelid. A nurse peeled the lid back. The surgeon gripped the muscle on the inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes at the edge of the lid. Then, with hair-thin nylon thread, he stitched the muscle down. The eyelid was rolled back, covered with a cold cloth as the surgeon went to work on the other eye. Total operating time: five minutes...
...began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived as usual, but when Miss Jomes turned to the slot she found it sewn-up. Frantic, she tried to rip it open. No luck. She could feel something thin inside, but she couldn't get to it. And that's how it's been ever since...
...x428Fy had switched to slotless Van Heusen Collarite shirts--with sewn-in stays! You should, too! These micro-thin stays can't get lost, keep your collar flat, and launder with your shirt! Specify Collarite next time...
...deuterium nuclei and force them to stay close together while an electric current heats them very hot. In practice, a magnetic bottle is some sort of glass tube, often doughnut-shaped, filled with rarefied deuterium. When electric current is shot through it in the proper way, a hot, thread-thin spark flickers briefly in the center. This is deuterium pinched together by magnetic force. It is many times hot enough to melt the glass of the tube, but it never gets to touch...
...title page warns that Edwin O'Connor-author of The Last Hurrah, that uproarious and thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley...