Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finance his new career, he earned $50,000 in five months by lecturing to packed audiences throughout Britain, then the U.S. He knew at once how to delight Americans. When a reporter asked him what he thought of New York, Churchill said gravely: "Newspaper too thick, lavatory paper too thin...
...peak of fugu gastronomy is sashimi made from the rare tiger fugu: paper-thin slices of raw fish flesh arranged artistically on platters in flower or bird patterns. Japanese, who pay $8 for two ounces of tiger fugu sashimi, eat it with almost religious ceremony and little or no risk. The sashimi is cut from the back flesh of the fugu, which is nonpoisonous* unless it has been carelessly contaminated with poison from other parts...
...both run by Dr. Guy Perdoncini, 50, who has his schools in Villefranche near Nice, and at La Norville outside Paris. Otologists have long known that even the "totally" deaf child usually has a vestige of hearing-mainly for the rumbling, deep-bass tones, which carry more energy than thin, high notes. Dr. Perdoncini was convinced that even this minimal capacity could be developed so that the child could learn near-normal speech. And in finding ways to prove his theory, he has made himself a world leader in the treatment and education of the congenitally deaf...
...soon forget the scene of that army of police, massing silently in the night, and a photographer peering out the press room window and remarking with a thin smile: "It seems to me I read all about this somewhere before...
Hello, Buddy. The main things Har ney, 35, got out of his eight years on the pro tour were a streak of snow-white hair and a nervous stomach. A reed-thin 150-pounder, he created a brief splash in 1957 when he belted a ball 430 yds. off the 17th tee at Tijuana, Mexico, but in all that time he won only four minor tournaments, finally quit to take a club pro's job in 1963, saying, "My nerves can't take it any more." But every now and then, when things get a little lonely around...