Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, a fat high school girl has one-third less chance of getting into college than her thin classmate. Although overweight boys face the same problem, their chances are slightly better...
...operating room, nurses pasted electrodes to the President's chest, so that a continuous electrocardiogram could be taken and shown on a TV-type screen. Dr. Didier worked a thin plastic tube through the President's throat and down his windpipe to deliver the anesthetic. Anesthetics must be chosen with special care for a patient with Johnson's heart-attack history; nitrous oxide offered the advantage of inducing only light anesthesia, so that the patient wakes up with a minimum of hangover. Dr. Didier had to use an especially thin tube to leave room for what else...
Britain's changing role in world affairs, as much as anything, has been responsible for the Australian awakening. During the Malaya emergency, and later during the Malaysian-Indonesian konfrontasi, when Britain's "thin red line" was stretched near the breaking point, Australia sent troops to stem Communist guerrilla activity. Britain's first moves to enter the Common Mar ket also turned Australia toward Asia...
...mentioning "A jar in wilderness upon a hill." Unfortunately Mr. Kaitz, whatever his intent, has failed to echo Steven's typically smooth movement, so different from the ragged rhythms above. Nor could these strings of monosyllables occur in his pentameter: "His cause was meager and his flag was thin...
Sometimes The Victors confuses you with details and the seemingly pointless fluttering of some thin characters. But this is only outside the cage. Inside, Sartre and Babe avoid allowing the lines of the play to wander off from each other and the result is a fascinating, lucid view of the tombless dead and the entombed living...