Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ahead with nationalization are of course doctrinaire and political. Steel nationalization had become the test of Socialist purpose, and Wilson had a debt to pay to Labor's left wing as well as to his own conviction. Moreover, steel had also become a challenge to Wilson's thin, four-vote Commons majority...
...knew what was in the letter before I even opened it," said Phillip Conrad, 17, a stocky, crew-cut senior who had earned seven athletic letters at St. Clair High School, north of Detroit. "It was thin. If it's an acceptance, it's thick. If it's a rejection, it's just one sheet...
Called cryosurgery, from the Greek kryos (cold or frost), the new method actually involves neither ice nor scalpel. The surgeon inserts a thin cannula (tube) that kills offending tissue with liquid nitrogen's intense cold (- 196° C., or 321° below zero F.). Usually no tissue is actually removed, and the body's natural clean-up system removes the debris. Virtually bloodless and almost painless, cryosurgery can be done on patients who remain fully conscious or only lightly anesthetized. In some cases cryosurgery is used only to relieve symptoms, but in others it achieves actual cures. Among...
...sculpture by Hugh Townley. He is an extremely talented artist, whose work seems among the most interesting of recent sculpture. I prefer his large reliefs made up of several types of wood, but his oversized "chessmen" and his colored drawings are also fine. Unfortunately, the current exhibit is somewhat thin. There are no recent works of major scale, and I am afraid that the New York branch of this gallery may have sold off the best things there...
...nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...