Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huynh Tan Phat, No. 2 man and chief strategist of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. After repeated messages, Phat finally arrived at the camp after Okamura had languished there more than a month. He was a short, wiry man with piercing eyes, a thin mustache and a crew cut, wearing a well-tailored khaki shirt and trousers, plus the standard "Ho Chi Minh sandals," cut from old tires. When Okamura complained that he had been robbed of his cameras, lied to and starved, Phat replied: "You have been lucky. We allow you five piasters...
...jungles and swamps provides better concealment for the Red guerrillas, while battle-weary government troops are compelled to slog through waist-deep mud. To both sides the monsoon brings misery: boots and web belts rot, weapons rust even under oilcloth, leeches drop from wet branches, and a thin green slime covers everything...
...boasts, with absolute seriousness, that "I have a rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth and there is no truth.' It is important to know that truth carried too far becomes destructive." How many businessmen talk like that...
...reform law is so thorough that one of its provisions limits mem -bership of any individual to 15 company boards, ostensibly to keep him from being spread so thin that he cannot carry out his responsibilities to stock holders. The provision has already been dubbed "Lex Abs" by the German busi ness community. Reason: It most severely restricts Deutsche Bank Chairman Herman J. Abs, who holds lucrative memberships on the boards of more than 20 of Germany's leading companies...
Tethered to his Gemini space ship by a thin gold cord, astronaut Edward H. White II stopped into the void yesterday and became the first American to float alone in the hostile emptiness of space...