Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of Europe is an underdeveloped area. The Continent lacks many of the broad-based financial institutions that, in the U.S., have transformed "people's capitalism" from a flag-waving slogan into a reality that works. The bourses exist in an aroma of gossip, cater primarily to a thin group of the elite. In France, most brokers do not even advertise-and the first one who does so aggressively may get on to quite a good thing. Still fearful of invasion and deflation, peasants tend to distrust securities, put their money in the mattress and their faith in gold...
...that it will curl tightly between two enemy stones and settle on the bull's-eye. He can also send his stone thundering into the target to scatter enemy stones like tenpins while leaving his own team's untouched. The idea of sweeping is to melt a thin layer of ice by friction, thus making it easier for the stone to slide, and strong-armed broom men can add as much as 12 ft. to a slide...
Neatly arrayed in graveyard rows, the 435 thin white crosses ranged down the sloping mall in front of Bascom Hall, the University of Wisconsin's main administration building. All through the rainy afternoon a cortege of mock mourners shuffled past. As they marched slowly up the hill, past a sign reading BASCOM MEMORIAL CEMETERY, CLASS OF 1968, the solemn students chanted: "Pray for the dead and the dead will pray for you; pray for the dead...
...Thin On Attack...
...depth wears thin on the attack. Veteran crease attackman Jim Anderson may miss some of the season because of a leg injury, and Jamie Kilbreth is still trying to shake the after-effects of a winter bout with mononucleosis...