Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million appropriations increase it received for Upward Bound from Congress to begin new programs, instead of increasing the effectiveness of those already in existence. Many of these programs, like the one in Cambridge, are barely hanging on. But OEO is under intense pressure to spread funds thin and make the President's War on Poverty visible in more constituencies...
This time he wasn't climbing simply because it was there. Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, 47, thought the kids might like a breath of thin air over the holidays. In Nepal to work on a hospital for his old climbing companions, the Sherpas, Sir Edmund packed his ice ax and took his wife, Louise, and their three children, aged seven to eleven, on a trek to the 18,000-ft. base camp from which, in 1953, he became the first man to climb Mount Everest...
...determined search for the new moon had actually been hindered by the spectacular rings, which reflect sunlight brilliantly, obscuring other objects in the vicinity of the planet. But though the rings are wide, they are also incredibly thin-perhaps even less than a foot thick. Thus every 14 years or so, when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record...
...Tigers will, most likely, paste Harvard like they paste everyone else. But there is a thin beam of hope. Not only has Princeton lost a game (to second-ranked Louisville, 72-63), but the Tigers had to struggle to tip Yale last Saturday...
...Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out." So wrote English Literary Critic Cyril Connolly, and many psychiatrists have been inclined to agree. What happens when a diet sets the thin man free? Does he enjoy his liberty? Not necessarily, reports Northwestern University Psychiatrist Howard D. Kurland...