Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political groups so that his Cabinet will have the complexion of a government of national unity. The only thing that he seems uncertain about is the date of his own inauguration. Astrologers cautioned against holding it on Nov. 1 as planned, since the moon will be spent, its crescent thin and the tides low. Thieu is now considering four other dates: Nov. 2, the first day of the moon's new cycle, or Nov. 3, 7 or 9. All, by astrological lights, are lucky days...
...brass and string tone that hovers in the air. Trumpeter Helmut Wobisch, the orchestra's manager, ascribes the sound in part to the peculiar nature of Vienna's brass instruments, wider in bore than those used in Ameri can, French and British ensembles, and handmade of exceptionally thin metal, producing a blendable tone without the usual cutting edge...
...came, oddly enough, partly as the result of a considerable initial victory. Last August, in a lightning attack, Ojukwu's forces swept westward out of Biafra and captured Nigeria's oil-rich Midwestern state. But the drive left Ojukwu's 7,000 troops stretched dangerously thin over 39,000 sq. mi. Rather than strike back, Gowon quietly built his troop strength to 42,000 men and kept adding heavy arms, ammunition and jet planes, which Ojukwu could ill afford. Then, two weeks ago, after Ojukwu's Midwestern administrator proclaimed the "autonomous, independent and sovereign republic...
...which has transmitted more pictures (18,006) to earth than Surveyors 1 and 3 together, also confirmed the presence of some iron compounds on the moon. Focusing on a powerful magnet that scientists had attached to one of the spacecraft's footpads, the camera transmitted pictures of a thin layer of dust-kicked up in the landing-on the magnet. By comparing these shots with control pictures made on earth, where dirt with known percentages of iron filings had been scattered on a magnet, the scientists established the presence of iron compounds...
...know not much more than Tocqueville had already noticed about the role of the lawyer in America, or what this presently means for our combativeness and cooperativeness, suspiciousness and trust, dependency and anarchy. What sociologists and political scientists have written about law and social control has seemed to me thin stuff. Yet it should be evident from what I have said that the law does offer to the academic social scientist one avenue for understanding our society and what makes it different from those like Japan, where go-betweens do the work here done by lawyers, or England, where accountants...