Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bear it!" she stammered, sweeping a thin and pallid hand across her humid forehead...
That just about exhausts the plays' good points, however. There are few witty lines, and they are more than made up for by the bad ones. The humor is thin, the allegory at best obvious, and the apparent attempts at profundity embarassing...
...bowl-shaped antenna pointed straight up. Above it floated an object that looked for all the world like a small, square bedspring with a tiny helicopter attached. The rotor blades whirled with a thin whine, and the helicopter strained at the guy wires that kept it from climbing more than 50 ft. There it hovered, its blades spinning sturdily, drawing their power out of invisible microwaves shooting up from below. This was Raytheon Co.'s first public demonstration of an aircraft powered solely by radio energy...
Edmund Norwood Bacon, 54, is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), thin (160 Ibs.) Philadelphian with sharp blue eyes and an intensely intellectual air that hardly seems the right equipment for moving and shaking a major city. But his total dedication to his special art and to his native town?plus an impressive gift of gab?is changing the look and feel of the town that was once the butt of comedians as the sleepiest city of them...
...male character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history...