Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treaty Room of the old State Department Building for his first press conference in eight weeks, an overflow (311) crowd of reporters craned their heads to see for themselves. The President, dressed in a lightweight grey suit, looked more fleshed-out than during his Gettysburg convalescence, but still seemed thin...
Last week shrewd Kasim Gulek deliberately offered Menderes an opportunity for scalp-lifting. Premier Menderes, faced with rising criticism of his ruinously inflationary economic policies, has grown increasingly thin-skinned. Six weeks ago Menderes pushed through Parliament a repressive law which forbids political meetings or demonstrations except in the 45 days immediately preceding elections. (Turkey's next general elections will be held in 1958.) To test the new law, Opposition Leader Gulek decided to make a political tour of Turkey's isolated Black Sea ports...
...Downing Street last week, on an unprecedented summons from Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. the liveliest man in the government of Anthony Eden. Urbane Harold Macmillan (who delights in his new Threepenny Opera nickname of "Mack the Knife") wanted to impress on London's top bankers the thin edge on which the British economy now rests...
Anybody who stays home these nights to look at TV has only himself to blame for thin returns. It is the height of the wrong season-summer replacement time. This year the networks have surpassed even their own previous records for caution and lack of imagination. They have abandoned experimental summer shows, thrown in old fillers from previous summer seasons, and provided no new personalities to freshen up wilted offerings...
Macken has told 21 stories, mostly in a brogue as thick as barley soup. A typical one is "The Currach Race"-a currach being the paper-thin, skin and withy rowboat in which Galway fishermen put out into the Atlantic. Colm wants to marry Sorcha, a fisherman's daughter. But the fishermen despise Colm because he is a farmer. Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day. He nearly kills himself, but in the end, bless him, they agree he's a great man, and there...