Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throat, inserted an "airway tube" to ensure unobstructed breathing. Under the watchful eye of Surgeon James Hardy, Dr. Fabian attached a tiny electrode to each of the woman's temples. At his signal, a technician turned a control on the face of a small box from which thin wires trailed out to the electrodes. Within 60 seconds the woman was sound asleep, and the operation began-first ever performed in the U.S. under electrical anesthesia...
Doctors were optimistic at first, but the melanoma spread to his back. Thin, exhausted and in pain, Dooley checked into a Hong Kong hospital last November, was fitted with a brace ("my Iron Maiden") that extended from his shoulders to his hips. "I am not going to quit," Dooley insisted, with a typical touch of melodrama. "I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse...
...most important influence was Germany itself. Grosz saw it as a kind of hell. His Berlin streets were clogged with human monsters-fat, seminaked whores, bulbous businessmen, thin-lipped officers with monocles and Iron Crosses. Rape and murder fascinated him, and the death that hovers over sickbeds and alongside dozing old beggars. Though Grosz was an impeccable draftsman, he used fierce, childlike lines to transform the world into a nightmare of distortion. "I always like to be a little tortured," he said. "You like to laugh, but you also like to be hit. It's the schizophrenia...
...reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were as tough and cynical as crooks. Success led inevitably to Hollywood, where, after creating The Thin Man, he doctored scripts, became a leader of the left-wing coterie. In 1951 he served six months in prison for refusing to tell a federal court the source of funds he had helped solicit for Communist Party bail jumpers...
...Thin but talented," the Freshman wrestling team may well be undefeated this year. However, Coach John H. Lee Jr. '53 added, "we have no depth. An injury could kill...