Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alternate means of supplying Khe Sanh, but Route 1, which connects with Khe Sanh via Route 9, is the best, and will thus not be left gladly in enemy hands. One of Giap's aims in his general offensive is to stretch U.S. lines?and U.S. troop deployments?as thin and as wide as he can, forcing General Westmoreland to make difficult choices of priority...
...rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden in a desert cemetery. Also after the money is a thin-lipped sadist named Setenza (Lee Van Cleef...
...calculated sexual confusions with jaunty lightheartedness. The songs are deft adaptations of rock rhythm. But the principal light-and-power supply of the show is a loose-jointed, lemur-eyed young lady named Leland Palmer, who as Viola shows that she can mug a laugh out of thin air, detonate a song and dance like a rag doll in a washing machine...
...Soviet journalists, whose reports never appeared in Pravda or Izvestia. Outside the courthouse, in temperatures that reached 50 below zero, protesters crowded against police barricades and dashed from door to door through the swirling snow, only to be turned away because they lacked official passes. Police pushed back a thin, weather-beaten man several times until someone yelled: "What kind of disgraceful situation is this? The father of Galanskov cannot even get in to the trial of his own son?" Finally the door opened and the elder Galanskov was allowed...
...care about the country, or the government, or any kind of unit bigger than a family. Adzope has the accouterments of civilization, but that often appears very irrelevant. It has had enough French education to be able to go through the motions, but occasionally something happens to show how thin the veneer really...