Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange for the $1,000,000 a day he gets from the Red bloc, Fidel Castro barters away Cuba's lifeblood -its sugar crop. That blood is beginning to get thin. Partly because of Hurricane Flora and partly because of pitiful mismanagement, Cuban sugar production this year is estimated at 3,300,000 tons, about half what it was in pre-Castro years. Yet Castro has committed more sugar (at bargain prices he can ill afford) to his Communist partners, until he now owes them more than he produces. Faced with this kind of debacle, Cuba last week...
...obviously tried for as rich an effect as possible; he used heavy vibrato and full bows. Yet, curiously, he played a lot of notes on the open strings without any false vibrato an octave above or below. He made no attempt to shape whole phrases. His tone had a thin, strained sound as if he were playing on top of the strings...
Leashes, Anyone? At the noon starting gun the temperature was in the 30s, and a 20-m.p.h. head wind pelted the marathoners with sleet. Water seeped through the soles of their thin racing shoes. Here and there, an angry dog snapped at a runner's ankles, although an A.S.P.C.A. truck drove ahead, offering free leashes to bystanders with mutts. A few little boys tried to press orange slices into their heroes' hands. A pair of collegians, wearing shirts emblazoned "Pseudo A.C.," loped up to harry the leaders until the cops shooed them...
...Bible was reproduced by what Bob Chollar, the company's head of research, calls photochromic micro images, or PCMI. The film has none of the silver halide grains that are the vital element in conventional photographic film; instead there is a very thin layer of a dye that darkens rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light. The resulting picture has no "grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle...
...winter experiences, as though you added a hundred days here to make it, but it was on a different level altogether. Some knew what he was talking about, some didn't; and those who had recently known, like him, may have found life at school a little thin...