Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 1,000 years, the city stood empty in the barren, wind-blown valley, 34 miles northeast of where Mexico City now stands. Ever so slowly, its palaces and temples, splendid with brilliant murals and shell-thin pottery, disappeared beneath the sifting earth, until at last only a pair of massive, truncated pyramids and a few mounds remained to mark the city's grave. Even its name was forgotten...
Wagner credits his early-season batting surge to a "secret weapon." His bat is a 33-oz. bludgeon with a thin, whippy handle and the biggest business end (8.6 inches around) that baseball rules will allow. Wagner wears a golf glove on his left hand,* grips the bat in unorthodox fashion-with his hands split two inches apart, à la Ty Cobb. "When my bat meets the ball," he says, "that old pill really takes off." Except in Chavez Ravine. For some mysterious reason, Slugger Wagner has yet to hit a homer in his own home park...
...thick at the base to support the crushing load. Such walls were made unnecessary by the so-called "curtain wall," hung from the building's frame. But since World War II, the architects' slang for a building's outer covering, "skin," has become especially appropriate; thin, lightweight metals and glass have turned more and more office buildings into glistening, icy slabs of graph-paper monotony. What Frank Lloyd Wright called "those flat-chested facades" has become a national vice...
...only U.S. industry that creates its products out of thin air is the $1 billion-a-year industrial gas business, which is becoming as expansive as the exotic gases that are making it prosper. By compressing air until it liquefies, the industry extracts various gases whose temperatures are close to absolute zero ( - 460° F.). It has thus created a spectrum of uses for rare gases whose inertness, heavy atomic weights and unique electrical properties make them invaluable servants: argon for welding, krypton for long-lasting light bulbs, and xenon for high-intensity lights such as those used at airports...
...track v. 27 in Britain, where that number is considered heavy featherbedding. Brazilian 10,000-ton freighters have an average 49 crewmen each, while similar ships under other flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their ranks; but when Kaiser tried to do so, workers seized the plant and threatened to burn it along with management hostages trapped inside. Peru's Lima-Callao tramcar company, which recently pulled out of bankruptcy, is not permitted by the unions to fire anyone, although it has four workers...