Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.N., unable to act against Russia, was clamping down hard on Britain and France. Less than 24 hours before Pineau spoke, 190 Norwegian riflemen of the United Nations Emergency Force entered Port Said amidst screams of welcome from a wild-eyed Egyptian mob. The Norwegians were the thin end of a wedge with which U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold intended to winkle the reluctant British and French out of Egypt...
...posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt, hard look that prevailed for so long...
...competitive trance," beneath which lies the quick temper of a scalded hog. When the spirit moves him, he snatches up the shot in his left hand, licks the fingers of his right hand and rubs the saliva on the back of his neck. This is not superstition. The thin lamination of moisture is meant to keep the shot from clinging an instant too long to the side of Parry's neck, where it rests before...
Fiber optics derives its name from its use of hair-thin strands of optical glass as light carriers. Light entering an ordinary clear glass or plastic rod is reflected over and over again from the inner surface until it emerges again at the far end. This familiar principle causes the rod to act as a "light pipe." Dr. Kapany conceived the idea of bunching thousands of microscopic glass rods, each of which would transmit a single point of light. The bundle of points of light should form an image in much the same way the pattern of ink dots...
...closeness of the group does not prevent privacy, since, according to Stephen Cushman, "you can be alone all you want." Although the walls are thin, the dorm is quiet, and "when there's noise, everyone makes it," Cushman said. Some of the 17 study in Lamont, but most study in the dorm, where it is "quieter than in the Yard," James R. Murphy claims...