Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours the Senators permitted Perez to prattle on. Finally their patience wore thin. When Perez declared that "there is a Communist plan" behind the bill, Illinois Republican Everett M. Dirksen, one of its chief architects, made him eat his words. "That," snapped Senator Dirksen, "is about as stupid a statement as has ever been uttered in this committee room." Cowed, Perez asked that his comment be stricken from the record...
Bloody Scuffle. From Danang to the Mekong Delta patience was growing thin last week on both sides. Taking the initiative, some 3,000 South Vietnamese marines slogged through 38 slimy canals south of Saigon batting away leeches even as they caught slugs from Communist snipers. The toll was light-18 Viet Cong killed-but it was the first government offensive since December in the delta, and U.S. advisers hoped it would encourage the government troops to undertake bigger and more effective pushes not only in the delta, but throughout the country...
...Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Tynan, who are director and literary manager of Britain's National Theater, decided it needed a thorough overhaul. To thin out the verbal thickets, they called in Poet-Classicist Robert Graves, who made over 300 changes from obscure to understandable Elizabethan. To give the plot a new lift, they unleashed the talents of Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose earlier beatnik Hamlet had the hero intone, "To be or not to be-what the hell...
...baffling blend of complication and simplicity. Basically, the digital computer is nothing but an electronic machine that can do arithmetic and retrieve information with incredible speed-but that very speed makes it, in its way, superhuman. Inside the computer's refrigerator-like cabinet dwells an intricate network of thin wires, transistors, and hundreds of thousands of tiny magnetized metal rings, all strung together into a memory-and arithmetic-processing unit. The location of each fact stored in the computer's memory is no bigger than the tip of a match, and the computer never forgets these locations...
...which marital infidelity appears to be as widespread as the common cold-and sooner or later everyone has to go to bed with it. Though Cuckold is too long, and made longer by dead-end forays into its hero's fantasy life, Director Antonio Pietrangeli imbues a thin fable with sprightly cynicism about the dire consequences of dalliance for players unable to master the sport...