Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the government prepared for a three-pronged offensive aimed at clearing Route 19. Unless the road is regained, the entire central highlands could fall to the Viet Cong, leaving only thin strips of government control through the northern half of the country. To relieve some of the pressure, South Korea last week sent the first 600 troops of a 2,000-man engineer contingent to rebuild bridges in central Viet...
...earlier. Brigitte's arrival had been the real wild-eyed thing-riot police with tear-gas pistols, screams, a fight, grown men fainting. But Moreau is not the kind of actress who requires a motorcycle escort. Indeed, she hardly looks like an actress at all-too small, too thin, too true. "Beautiful?" she says. "Of course not. That's the whole point about...
Electronic Collision. So frail that it can hold its shape only at weightless, airless altitudes, that wide wing is the working element of a satellite, built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly...
...five buildings were going to ruin. On 21 acres of flat land where brown cows still graze, the school consisted of two aging red brick dormitories, a tiny red cafeteria and a dilapidated classroom building called Dinkins Hall. "The floors were so bad you got splinters if you wore thin shoes," Owens recalls. There was another academic building, but it had to be torn down at once, says Owens, "for insurance reasons-but even more for esthetic reasons...
Died. John Breck Sr., 87, founder and chairman of the biggest U.S. shampoo-maker (15% of the market), a onetime Massachusetts fireman who started mixing chemicals in the early 1900s when his own hair began to thin, built his concoctions into a $28 million annual business with the help of one of the U.S.'s most distinctive ad campaigns, featuring for the past 25 years portraits of silken-haired blondes, most of whom were his own granddaughters and great-granddaughters; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...