Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin-skinned Premier turned his attack on his newspaper critics (most of Turkey's press). "They are doing everything to cause crisis. They have tried to reduce the value of our money and to decrease our political authority both in and out of the country. These people want revolution. In their speeches, they say that they are going to take over the country soon. That is terrorism...
Guilty But Traumatized. Far more important than the relative handful of patients treated by the thin cohort of psychoanalysts centered mostly in New York and Hollywood are the millions who are daily influenced, often unknowingly, by the penetration of Freudian theory. A social worker visiting a family with health and welfare problems looks for unhealthy father-son or mother-daughter relationships. The probation officer reporting on a juvenile delinquent discusses the family background with the court in terms of aggression and compensation. So does a truant officer. In Wheeling, W. Va. last week, Thomas Williams Jr., 14, was found legally...
...ever-changing relay of would-be writers, young students who serve their operatic apprenticeship with her the way others serve in claques or work as spear bearers, then go on to a semester or two in Europe. For publishable articles they get $15 to $25. In order to thin the ranks of contributors. Editor Peltz subjects them to quick research jobs on what she anachronistically calls "$64 questions." Samples: ¶ Was Gaetano Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) a Scotsman? For years nobody could give an answer, but one girl eventually uncovered some evidence that the composer's great-grandfather...
...major cities Japanese hotels ($9 to $15 for a double room) have all the comforts of home, but in the provinces tourists should be prepared for hard beds, little heat and no inside plumbing. Japanese food is generally heartier than Chinese cooking, with tender steaks and sizzling sukiyaki, a thin-sliced beef dish cooked at tableside. Things to buy: tortoise shell, pearls, lacquerware, porcelain, embroidered kimonos, art, furs, cameras, binoculars...
...Badger. Like the Badger, its two engines are very large (estimated thrust: 20,000 Ibs. each). This is not necessarily a plus; Western designers, with that kind of horsepower available, like to split their power among four, six or eight engines to reduce frontal area per engine and spread thin potential troubles from engine failure...