Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scattered southwestern cotton fields, the slow, soft green of spring is sprouting against a strange background: glittering gridirons of broad black stripes. Paper-thin strips of polyethylene plastic stretch across the fields, warming the soil, conserving water, choking out weeds, protecting the land against the erosion of wind and rain. And if the coddled cotton crop that is even now poking tentatively into view grows close to its rich promise, its payoff may be the beginning of an agricultural revolution...
Since light in watercolors comes from the bare whiteness of paper, Cézanne progressively left more and more blank white space. After 1885, his watercolors began influencing his oils: patches of canvas showed through watery thin layers of bright paint. Cézanne's work became like unfinished jigsaw puzzles...
Arjay Miller bears a marked resemblance to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, an old friend and onetime associate. Both men have stern faces, brush their dark hair straight back, and are thin-lipped and hard-eyed behind their spectacles. "I'm proud," says Miller, 47, "of any resemblance to Mr. McNamara." But the resemblance goes far deeper than appearances, and the qualities that both men share last week boosted Arjay* Miller to the presidency of Ford Motor...
Membrane Dam. While the fate of Abu Simbel hung in the balance, two cut-rate schemes were proposed to save it. British Movie Producer William MacQuitty. backed by a group of London engineers and architects, proposed building a thin ''membrane" dam around the temple. When muddy Nile water rises outside, pressure will be balanced as the space that the dam encloses will be filled to the same height with clear, filtered water treated so that it will not damage the temple's stonework. Visitors would be able to admire the temple from submerged portholes reached by elevators...
...necessary is to spray the film's photoconductive plastic top with an easily generated positive charge of static electricity. The bottom layer of the film carries an equal, but opposite, negative charge. Those two electric charges, although powerfully attracted to each other, are kept apart by the thin plastic film...