Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amexco with surprising ease. Often, one of them would clamber to the top of a tank, drop in a weighted tape measure, then shout down to an Amexco inspector on the ground that the tank was 90% full. Sometimes the tanks were indeed full-with water, topped by a thin slick of oil. Usually many were empty. Moreover, the tanks were connected by a jungle of pipes; Tino's men sometimes sneaked into the casually guarded tank farm on weekends, pumped oil from one tank to another. These machinations gave him an endless supply of oil certificates-and endless...
...today's one-story, "open-plan" efficiency home, bedrooms abut on "family rooms," kitchens spill over into dining areas, and walls are wafer 'thin - affording, altogether, about as much privacy as a day on Candid Camera...
...should have been." But he was ahead of pop art in his imaginative use of materials. One of his last collages, For Kate, uses American comic strips, sent to him by a New York friend. He cut them up and reassembled them under a thin layer of transparent tissue paper. That was 1947-long before the world had heard of Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon paintings, or of "happenings" as living collages, or even of pop itself...
...Angeles Timesman Ruben Salazar interviewed a rebel accused by the State Department of being a Communist: "Florentine doesn't look dangerous. He's slight of build and sports a thin mustache. I went away wishing we had done something to win him to our side." Wrote Dan Kurzman of the Washington Post: "Innumerable conversations have strongly indicated overwhelming popular support for the rebel regime and a corresponding anti-American sentiment arising from U.S. antagonism toward that regime...
William McChesney Martin Jr., chair man of the Federal Reserve Board, has privately retreated from his feeling earlier this year that the U.S. was "on the thin edge" of price inflation...