Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday's City Council meeting, Justin M. Gray, assistant to the City Manager for Community Development, placed a towering pile of "yes" votes, and two thin stacks of "no" votes and invalid ballots before the Council. He asked the councillors to approve the ordinance as soon as possible...
...outcome of the season, Broun was ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported...
...back into a child who is "froze like a pump." A housewife sees beauty in the configurations of dead roaches. In the title story, an intricate prose poem about a small Midwestern town, windows are graves, asphalt crumbles, maples are decapitated to make way for electric wires ("voices in thin strips"), and the narrator sifts the ashes of a cooled love...
...they could also be offerings to some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says. Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors. These are achieved by spraying on 20 thin coats of high quality lacquer, which, he proudly points out, is the same method used on the West Coast for first-rate hotrod jobs...
...tough one to forget. Wringing his hands and shakily glancing over his sagging shoulder, he fails to miss a physical or vocal nuance for his chosen portrayal. His feet drag, his voice rasps and clutches, even his eyes seem to sweat. The line between patheticness and soapiness is a thin one, but Buchwald keeps to the right territory...