Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke of "the past that despoiled our heritage with the indelible stains of corruption and Communism." Patriarch Herbert Hoover, erect and unbowed at 82, touched off one of the convention's most heartfelt demonstrations, thanked the old friends who had stood up for him through thick and thin ("And some of those years where they stood up were pretty thin"), traced the development of man's freedoms from Greece and Rome to Runnymede to Philadelphia, A.D. 1776, and its "fulfillment of God's purpose that the mind, spirit and enterprise of man should be free...
...Turkey, where the voice of civil liberties is thready and thin these days (TIME, July 9), trim (at 71) Opposition Leader Ismet Inönü, head of the Republican People's Party, had trouble taking a foot-first dive at the resort island of Heybeli near Istanbul. His plunging technique was fine, but cops, who keep close track of Inönü soon moved in to break up the crowd of onlookers. The ludicrous pretext for their action: Turkey's longtime (1938-50) President Inönü and his fellow frolickers looked suspiciously like...
...frowns; his meddling and muddling in legislative affairs ("I am the governor") stirred deep resentment. When Hall called recalcitrant legislators "s.o.b.s" to their faces during a bitter legislative rhubarb early this year, the insulted lawmakers formed an "S.O.B. Club" to campaign against him. Kansas did a belly laugh, and thin-skinned Fred Hall was the victim...
...naturalism and formalism, serenity and tension. At first glance, Nefertete seems rigidly posed staring straight ahead, a symbol of dedicated otherworldliness. But a closer look shows her to be lively and natural in expression. Again, she seems at first to carry far too heavy a burden on her thin, soaring neck, but the strain induced by the weight of the crown is resolved in peace by the upward lift of the quiet mouth, wide eyes and winged brow...
...size of individual contracts, a solid estimate is that the Government has invested $5 billion in missiles, will spend $1.2 billion this year alone. As for progress to date, Ostrander disclosed that Lockheed has already test-flown a nose cone through and possibly beyond the ionosphere, a layer of thin air 50 to 250 miles above the earth. This indicates that the U.S. has met some success on probably the most difficult of all missile problems: re-entry into the stratosphere. Said Ostrander: "No major breakthroughs are necessary to build and launch a long-range missile...