Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pity is that inside this bad fat novel, a good thin novel is signaling wildly to get out. Behind its mythic pretensions to be a fire-and-water purification ritual, Milkbottle H has the first-rate makings of an old-fashioned Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday...
...countless viewers, TV's man of the holiday week proved to be no beer-bellied, chortling Santa Claus, but a lean, rather stern-faced man in a dark business suit who spoke through thin lips with a noticeable Afrikaans accent. He offered no tinseled presents, but the hope that his kind of surgical pioneering may eventually bring the vastly more valuable gift of renewed and prolonged life to many victims of heart disease. He was Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (TIME cover, Dec. 15), who flew to the U.S. from Cape Town to Face the Nation on CBS, appeared...
...Army's need developed out of the fact that low-flying, thin-skinned and slow-moving helicopters are often clay pigeons to ground-based enemy sharpshooters and are virtually impossible to protect with jet or conventional prop planes. In demonstrating how it could do the job, Lockheed's Cheyenne rolled down the runway at 50 m.p.h., stopped, reversed direction, then did a series of intricate ground maneuvers before lifting itself 10 ft. aloft and hovering in that position. Extending and retracting its landing gear, the craft climbed to 30 ft. and, in helicopter fashion, backed...
...confirm his nagging suspicions. The Met quietly retired the horse while its ancestry was being checked (though Brentano's book store was still selling a $75 replica when the news was released). What had initially caught Noble's eye while strolling by the horse was a thin line that runs from the top of the mane to the tip of the nose and, less evidently, circles the entire body. "I knew as sure as I was standing there," Noble recalled last week, "that the piece was a fraud." But how to prove...
...adults for one another as often as for children. One can easily understand why in this elegant, color-illustrated survey of a key period in the toy industry's history, 1860-1914, when the Industrial Revolution brought new techniques to toymaking. Machines could now roll metal into thin sheets, punch out forms, and fold them into the shape of toys that could be sold in greater numbers and at cheaper prices; inner works, such as clockwork miniatures, gave charm and humor to acrobat cyclists, gardeners with watering cans, mothers with prams, even mechanical accordionists who swayed as they played...