Word: thinly
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Mike Powell, a junior at Atlanta's Morehouse College, observed, "I's an atmosphere. Racism is very difficult to pinpoint. There is often a very thin line between discrimination and lack of intimacy. You can't draw a line and say, 'on this side is discrimination and on that side is unfamiliarity...
...newest policemen in the St. Louis police department, I read with extreme interest your article "Police: The Thin Blue Line " [July 19]. You noted with accuracy that one of the basic needs of metropolitan departments is better-educated officers. Most metropolitan departments do little if any recruiting on a college level because they are convinced they have nothing to offer the graduate...
...does the U.S. lack for architects of ability, vision and daring. True, compared with many other professions, they form a thin line. There are only 29,000 registered architects in the U.S., compared with 315,000 lawyers, 315,000 doctors, 275,000 engineers, and they still have too little effect on U.S. building. But given the opportunity, the best U.S. architects often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since...
There has never been anything objectionable, however, or timid either, about the style of Argyll and Sutherland fighting. The regiment became famous throughout the empire when a London Times correspondent in 1854 sent back a dispatch on "the thin red line" of Argylls, standing two deep, that withstood a Russian charge at Balaklava in the Crimean War. When the outnumbered troops started to move forward to fight it out hand to hand, their commander, General Sir Colin Campbell, halted them only by bellowing out: "Ninety-third! Ninety-third! Damn all that eagerness...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in. by the time he was 15) and myopic, Huxley grew up through Eton and Oxford to live in a thin, rarefied world of his own. His notion of conversation, Osbert Sitwell grumbled, was to relay data on the "incestuous mating of melons" or the "curious amorous habits of cuttlefish." In words that Clark applies to all the Huxleys, young Aldous seemed less a human being than "something more nearly approaching a controlled experiment...