Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tips. Even when the fans, players, coaches and managers are reasonably passive, the umpire faces other dangers. Physical injuries are common. Most dangerous assignment: calling balls and strikes behind home plate, where the umpire is an easy mark for a stray fastball or foul tip. Before he traded his thin, hair-stuffed National League chest protector for an inflated American League model, fragile Jocko Conlan absorbed a regular beating. His hospital record: two broken collarbones, two broken elbows. Last fall in Baltimore, American Leaguer Larry Napp was struck by three successive pitches-one on the mask, two in the groin...
...slice of hospital life. True, the story has been sliced twice before. Author Arthur Hailey first told it in a TV play (No Deadly Medicine), later in a novel (The Final Diagnosis). In the hands of Scriptwriter Joseph Hayes, the slice begins to seem a shade too thin...
...Cubans queued up at 3,000 exchange centers, a Havana fruit vendor handed over 12,000 pesos, and beggars showed up with what they had. The thin sheaves of new bills they received were made in Czechoslovakia, pictured Fidel in heroic stance. Then the government announced one more cruel surprise: any cash that had been turned in exceeding 10,000 pesos would be "confiscated." The vast majority of Cubans could now be considered a true proletariat working for what the government decides to pay as wages. Said one Cuban: "It is a typical Communist technique. They keep them poor...
...Near-wafer-thin loudspeaker developed by scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, which will be marketed in the U.S. by the Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. Only three-eighths of an inch thick, it clearly reproduces high-frequency sounds that are scratchy on many present speakers, can be hung on a wall like a picture frame. It will enable Emerson to cut the size of existing hi-fi rigs by two-thirds...
...narrow dirt runway, the pencil-thin Negro poises disjointedly, like a puppet whose strings are loose. Then he prances forward, flapping his skinny arms and kicking his knees almost to his chest. Suddenly, his left foot slams savagely into the take-off board. His eyes bug, his face contorts, and his legs pedal furiously as he springs into trajectory. His left hand claws upward through the air as though searching for something...