Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ruddy Machine. When it came to translating such complex matters into the precise science of soaring, no man at Saint-Yan could compare with a thin, grave U.S. meteorologist named Paul B. MacCready Jr. "He's a ruddy machine," complained one Englishmen. "He's a sorcerer," whispered a Frenchman. Said a more practical American: "He's a genius...
...until Washington's needling Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson questioned him about his famous crack "phony" (TIME, July 2) did Engine Charlie's practiced patience wear thin. Wilson had said that he meant a reporter's question about congressional appropriations raised a "phony" issue, but Democratic Senators contended he had accused Congress of taking a "phony" stand...
...sadly inferior second team. Jean Servais is coolly efficient as the criminal mastermind, and Carl Mohner and Robert Manuel play his talented assistants. Director Writer Dassin is on screen, too, as an imported Italian safecracker who brings a Latin flourish to his work. Perhaps Dassin spread himself too thin in the picture, but he gathers enough honors in his memorable silent sequence to satisfy most writers, directors and actors for a lifetime of work...
...Assembly, refusing to retract, 65 Deputies followed him. Said Menderes, as the reduced Assembly passed his bill (281 to 2): "Mark you, tomorrow they will be back." But the opposition did not return next day, and their spokesman announced that henceforth they would boycott the National Assembly. Thus, thin-skinned Adnan Menderes will be free of niggling criticism not only in public meetings but in the Grand National Assembly itself. Probably no one but Adnan Menderes found that prospect reassuring...
...many a bruised alpinist knows after haughtily trying subterranean slumming. The most rugged U.S. cave, West Virginia's hellish Schoolhouse−featuring such obstacles as "bottomless" (down to 70 ft.) fissures and sheer-rock faces that long defied human spiders, 180-ft. dropoffs past receding walls in thin air−can be negotiated by the most skilled mountaineers in eight to ten hours, round trip. As the bat flies, Schoolhouse is a mere 1,600 ft. long, but the rate of travel for the best spelunkers is less than 7 ft. a minute...