Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably bloody) civil war, Sukarno proclaimed a "state of siege and war," asked his dissident military commanders to confer with him in Djakarta. As the colonels began winging in, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo drove up to the presidential palace on a humid tropical night and handed his chief, from a thin blue portfolio, his resignation. To try to put together another government, Sukarno named the little-known head of Sastroamidjojo's Nationalist Party, an ex-mayor of Djakarta named Suwirjo...
Tunesmith Rodgers listened from the sidelines, confided: "That's the one I like best." Like the other 13 selections composed for the show, the Rodgers tunes were light and a little thin, the Hammerstein lyrics were a little too sugary. There was still time to lace them with some tartness. "But after all," commented the other stepsister, Kaye Ballard, with a shrug of resignation, "it is Cinderella...
...left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then he stood by, relaxed, while an assistant cut deeper. To the surgical nurse standing on a low stool at the foot of the operating table, surrounded by trays of sterile instruments, went a running fire of orders...
Early heart-lung designers, starting with Gibbon, tried oxygenation by "filming" the blood, i.e., letting it run thin over a flat surface. They wanted to avoid bubbling it because of the danger that some bubbles might be left in, and if these reached the brain, they could cause paralysis or death. Richard DeWall, a general practitioner from Anoka, Minn., went to work with Lillehei. Neophyte DeWall figured: Instead of dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood...
...Delany runs, the spike-scarred boards of Madison Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half...