Word: thinly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speech campaign effort on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Before he left New York, Nixon confided that his main aim would be to fight off "the very real problem of Republican defection," and he had high hopes of success. Said he: "Johnson's support is very broad but very thin. Goldwater's support is narrower but deeper." But he recognized that Barry's political image needs polishing. "Goldwater must be depicted as a reasonable, calm man, and not as someone who has a bunch of nuts around him," said Nixon. "Senator Goldwater is a reasonable, calm...
...feel frightened little girl, just sing," said the M.C. So Julie Andrews opened her mouth and the vast hall filled with the "Polonaise" from Mignon. She had the voice of a woman. "I was a child freak," she says. "I had a four-octave range. It was a thin, reedy but very powerful voice. My parents carted me off to a throat specialist, who discovered that I had an adult larynx." Soon Julie became one of the youngest performers ever to give a Royal Variety Performance...
...ITALIAN GIRL, by Iris Murdoch. Another unsteady Murdoch heroine walks the thin line between old rules and new temptations. She wavers, of course, to give the author another opportunity to pit human emotions against moral tradition...
Every kid who has ever puffed out his cheeks blowing up a sausage-shaped toy balloon has marveled that anything as immaterial as air can make the thin rubber so rigid and strong. This week the Bauer & Black division of Boston's Kendall Co. is putting on the general market an inflatable splint based on the same simple principle, but made of heavy, transparent plastic...
Locked Wheels. Suddenly, the thin trail of purple smoke that billows behind the tires of swift-landing jets turned to a dense cloud pierced by a long tongue of flame. Fire engines screamed to the rescue, but the flame died out harmlessly. A brake had locked the left rear wheels; friction against the runway had rasped the tires down to the rims and ignited the rubber...