Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indictment completed, the myth of "Imperial Harvard" stand, much assailed and much lampooned, but nevertheless alive and vital. Harvard is overrated, effete, thin, smug, decaying, but still... What greater tribute than Cunliffe's final sentence: "If I were an American I would want my son to go there...
...attention to be sworn in, then stopped the court in its tracks by refusing to take his oath on the New Testament. "I'm not bound by any faith,'' he said. Presiding Judge Moshe Landau conferred with the other two judges, permitted Eichmann to swear on thin...
...week's end Eichmann's verbal prancing was wearing a little thin. After an Eichmann foray into the minutiae of the Nazi bureaucracy's workings, Judge Landau snapped: "You were not requested to give lectures. Asked a specific question, give a specific reply...
...exactly what he needed: Bob Goalby, onetime Darien, Conn., club pro, had finished earlier with a 282. Sanders, playing behind Littler, knew he had to birdie one of the last two holes to earn a tie. But Sanders was a stroke away each time. By the thin margin of one missed putt, quiet Gene Littler was the new Open champion...
...flaps to aid a plane on take-offs and landings is an old technique, but few wings have ever had as many appendages as are planned for the 727. As the swift airliner slows for landing, its thin, swept-back wings will grow like opening umbrellas. On their leading edges small "Kreuger flaps" will tilt outward, making the wing effectively thicker and giving it extra lift. Simultaneously, a strange structure will slide out of the wing's trailing edge. Segmented flaps will move backward and downward, deflecting the air stream sharply and adding still more lift. Filling the angle...