Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ample suspense was provided by two of Labor's own backbenchers, Right-Wingers Woodrow Wyatt and Desmond Donnelly, who had announced ahead of time that they disagreed with Wilson's plans to nationalize steel, might very well vote against his government and thus endanger his hair-thin majority...
Fool Killer falters most when Director Servando Gonzalez strives too restlessly for effects-bird's-eye views, fish's-eye views, and pool reflections. Young Albert is made a paper-thin storybook hero while Perkins, with no Hitchcock to guide him, mopes through his small starring role with an air of boyish menace that might easily be mistaken for sulking. Both actors seem to have been set adrift in a poetic but implausible neverland where Tom Sawyer tangles tales with Psycho...
...sent Harvard into a thin lead in the Greater Boston League after lowly Brandies put Northeastern down to its first league defeat, 15-5, Monday. The Crimson is now 2-1 in league play...
...life on Mars. But impressive evidence has been mounting for years. Among the red areas that give the red planet its name, astronomers can see darker patches that change and fade through the Martian year in a manner that strongly suggests the seasonal growth of vegetation. When the thin icecaps at the planet's poles disappear with the coming of the Martian spring, belts of darker color creep toward the equator, sometimes crossing it. This effect might be caused by some nonliving chemical change under the influence of drifting water vapor, but biological action is more likely...
Oxygen is known to be scarce on Mars, but many forms of earthly life live without free oxygen, and Martian life may do the same. The ultraviolet light from the sun that freely penetrates the thin Martian atmosphere would probably kill earthly plants and animals, but Martian life may have found some means to protect itself...