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Word: thinly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force's steel-nerved Captain Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. has spent more time up in the atmosphere's cold, thin-aired outer reaches than any man alive. Three years ago, to test body reactions at high altitudes, Kittinger rode a gondola to 96,000 ft. above sea level. Twice he has made record parachute jumps of more than 70,000 ft. Last week red-haired Joe Kittinger, 32, shattered his own marks for both going up and coming down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 20-Mile Fall | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...Orbited Echo I, a thin-skinned, gas-filled balloon 100 ft. in diameter, pioneer of a future globe-girdling network of balloon satellites to be used to bounce com munications signals from one continent to another (see SCIENCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Beyond the Earth | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...determined to collect the import duty of 42? an ounce, the biggest source of Macao's revenue. After the weighing, the authorities discreetly withdraw. Then the syndicate's employees melt down the international gold bars (usually weighing around 27 lbs.) into the portable 9-oz. bars or thin gold sheets preferred by smugglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: The New Gold Rush | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Jesus himself is a thin ascetic with thick lips, a hooked nose and large black eyes, "full of light, full of darkness-all intimidation and sweetness. Flickering like those of a snake, they stared at you from between the long lashes, and your head reeled." He has had his own portion of tragedy before the story begins; as a young man he had been in the act of proposing to Mary Magdalene when he was felled by an epileptic seizure and carried off frothing. The shock set "proud-gaited, high-rumped Magdalene" on a career that made her the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of Man | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...nervous Nazi garrison at St. Nazaire got its answer soon enough. In the wake of the hit-and-run bombers that ominous night in March 1942, a motley armada ghosted in across the broad tidal flats of the Loire estuary. Thin-skinned motor launches flicked their white wakes into the glare of hastily lowered searchlights. Ack-ack gunners frantically cranked their weapons toward zero elevation. Shells screamed across the river, and the water ran with fire as fuel tanks were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Distant Glory | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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