Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny TV Camera. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has pared down a TV camera to 1¾ by 2 by 5 in., sufficiently small and light to tuck into the thin wings of supersonic jet fighters. With such cameras set to watch the vertical stabilizer, landing gear and other parts of a new plane, pilots can see what is happening to a jet as it happens, rather than filming the action, watching the event from films afterward. Other possible uses include walkie-talkie-lookie...
...violin is a thin, hollow wooden box with a long neck, a body shaped like a figure eight, and a capacity for more subtlety of expression than any other orchestral instrument. It was perfected in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries by craftsmen of the Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri families. Others have been trying to duplicate their masterpieces of workmanship ever since...
...Come Back (Peggy Lee; Decca). A rocking blues that turns out to be really blue. Wonderful Peggy starts out confidently, but quickly sinks into a throat-catching mood, using a high, thin voice of ultimate sadness. "Hold out, baby," she keens. "I'll be back...
This book will be read devoutly by the thin cult of aging Americans for whom Henry Miller was the big name in a bohemian pantheon of goofy godlets. For others it has interest as the life record of a literary anarchist of boundless charm and talent but limited good sense, the loosest member of the Lost Generation, who, now 64. has lived these twelve years past as a sage emeritus in an arty enclave at Big Sur, Calif...
...matter is cased in a padding of sociological fat. Life, Aran Islander O'Flaherty seems to say, can only be understood in terms of death. Like many another Irishman, he sees the skull beneath the skin, just as his starveling heroes see the sharp rocks gnaw through the thin soil. ("I wish you a happy death," cries one after another of his characters, as if the wish were the greatest thing life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal, O'Flaherty has written of hawks, cows, rockfish, conger eels and water...