Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, the orchestra still has its problems. Throughout much of the concert the strings sounded pitifully thin--a common failing among amateur ensembles--and the French horns occasiosally gave out some glaringly uncalled-for sounds. But on the whole the Cambridge Civic Symphony carried off its tribute to Shakespeare quite competently, even with occasional moments of unexpected brilliance...
...reached the U.S. staging base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the following day. Flights from Christchurch to McMurdo have been made with almost monoto nous regularity for the past eight years -but only in the sunlit months from December to March. During April the light shrinks to a thin orange streamer and then flickers out, to be succeeded by continuous night and a winter season of swift blizzards and howling gales with temperatures as low as -127° F. Not until August does the sun return...
...might be done through increased trade, added Sir Alec. "I have persisted in my view, put rather crudely perhaps, that a fat Communist is to be preferred to a thin Communist...
Freighters, pleasure boats, barges and tugs wash up wakes like walls in San Francisco Bay's East Oakland estuary, but they are getting used to watching out for the thin-skinned craft with the straining oarsmen. Since California first dipped an oar in 1907, it has won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta eight times. Golden Bear crews have won three Olympic gold medals in three tries, and established themselves as the power in the West...
Adhesive to Moscow through thick and thin is East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who has waited all these years for a peace treaty that would permit him to order the U.S., Britain and France out of West Berlin. The permission never came, because Khrushchev was confronted by the West's readiness to fight for its rights in Berlin. How to keep Walter reasonably happy? After a round of "fraternal meetings" with Ulbricht in Moscow last week, the answer came with announcement of a 20-year "friendship pact" between East Germany and the Soviet Union. The document pledged mutual...