Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed by the noncom who did the work and the officer who supervised it. Everyone who handles the contents of the secret wastebaskets is screened for top-secret clearance...
...offer flashed through Israel, citizens who had just paraded in defiant anticipation of sanctions could hardly conceal their satisfaction. "We have forced on the State Department a transformation in its thinking," said one. But in Jerusalem, old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending a U.S. ship through the gulf...
...this point, Batista miscalculated. He pulled back all but a thin circle of troops, and waited for the rebels to surrender or flee. Instead, new recruits slipped through into the mountains almost daily. In sharp skirmishes, the rebels captured rifles and machine guns. Currently, the guerrillas are living well on pork, chicken, fresh fruit and vegetables from nearby farms, which Castro buys with personally autographed IOUs, payable "when the revolution wins." Operating in platoons of 22 men each, they sleep in the open, and in a different spot every night. They can strike and then disappear into the trees...
...happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
...missiles in 1954, the U.S. will boost the outlay to 35% ($1.7 billion) for unmanned warbirds, and probably achieve a 50-50 split by 1960. For planemakers who have concentrated heavily on standard air frames, it will mean a rapid rejuggling of their production, the prospect of some thin years...