Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he hears of visiting engineers searching for water in Nabataean country, Dr. Hammond likes to point out that the tricks of modern geology can be a waste of time. The first step, he believes, should be to look for fragments of Nabataean pottery, which was remarkably thin and strong. It often leads to ruins of buildings in apparently waterless places. "But water is always available," says Dr. Hammond. "The Nabataeans wouldn't have built a town if they couldn't get water...
...wrong with the defense. It has allowed 17 points in four games, and no opponent has managed anything approaching a sustained drive. Brad Stephens is extraordinary as a linebacker and signal caller. Jeff Pochop is big and mean, but with Neal Curtin hurt the other tackle spot is dangerously thin. Various other linemen have also been outstanding for the defense: Stephenson, before he was hurt, and Boyda at ends; Capt. Bill Southmayd and Bob Barrett, a tremendous sophomore prospect, at guards...
...Wellesley junior show is basically a Hasty Pudding show with girls. Complete with slapstick and jokes. It haphazardly weaves back and forth across the thin line between childishness and delightful nonesense...
...with two yolks. Something unique in television, it is a 90-minute double show in which Flatfoot Ben Gazzara has roughly 45 minutes to arrest someone, then Lawyer Chuck Connors spends the remainder of the time preparing and presenting the defense case. The whole is encased in a thin shell of phony dialogue and dramaturgy. Says the defense counsel to the judge: "I ask the court's indulgence while I present the schizoid face of forensic analysis." The judge might have to sit still, but viewers have their option...
Cargill has been prospering from thin margins on great volume ever since it was started a century ago by Will Cargill, son of a ship's master from Scotland's Orkney Islands. He set up a small grain storage shed near a rail terminal in Iowa, expanded with the railroads and the river barges; today, Cargill's 110 outposts are placed at almost every strategic transportation point in the midcontinent. The family business has been passed down through Cargill's descendants, who built huge grain elevators and expanded into everything from fish-meal processing in Peru...