Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer cannot, of course, ensure total domestic tranquillity. One plump freshman complained that her machine-matched roommate "gets cold too easily and wants to turn the heat on." Her thin chum countered that she can't really enjoy eating cookies from home while her friend is on a diet...
...were to respond to the Soviet anti-ballistic-missile system with a massive ABM system of its own, it would fall again into the "action-reaction phenomenon," he contends. The Johnson Administration obviously agrees; the Pentagon now plans to build only the "thin" anti-Chinese defense ABM screen that McNamara proposed (TIME, July 5). He adds: "The blunt fact remains that if we had had more accurate in formation [in 1961] about planned Soviet strategic forces, we simply would not have needed to build as large a nuclear arsenal as we have today...
Behind them, however, Penn looks a little thin. In the opener against Rutgers, there was nearly a minute gap between Lokken and third man Dan Stevens. Another minute separated Stevens and seniors Bill Caldwell and Bill Kelso...
...fiancee Susan (Mariclare Costello) at 4 a.m. to tell her that the wedding bells are not going to chime. Fluttering around like a chicken with its head cut off, he sputters out a dozen reasons why the match would be catastrophic: like, for instance, her arms are too thin. When his hysteria runs out of steam, Susan blandly and sweetly asks him if he and his father got fitted for their tuxedos today...
...Miss Alexandria" is, quite naturally, the last of the Morleys, a family that has more or less owned Unionville for generations. With her "thin, regal nose" and her whim of iron, she is a durable devotee of doing things right. "I was brought up to be polite," she says complacently, "even if it killed you." Living in a world of Satsuma bowls and family portraits, she nonetheless bravely jousts with the local mineowners, predictably besting them all. Through a shrewd financial maneuver, she forces them to pay their delinquent school taxes. Conveniently deaf, socially deft and totally domineering, she admits...