Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's thin-skinned press takes offense at the slightest criticism from President Johnson or anybody else. But what if it had to contend with a contemporary Soren Kierkegaard? Incensed by vicious newspaper attacks on his personal beliefs and eccentricities, the great 19th century Danish philosopher flayed the press both aloud and in his journals, the final volume of which is now available in English (The Last Years: Journals 1853-55; Harper & Row; $6.95). Sample scorchers...
...half mile of machinery is computer-controlled. At hotstrip mills, such as Inland Steel's at Indiana Harbor near Chicago, a serpent-like tongue of red-hot steel is shot at up to 44 m.p.h. through rollers that squeeze it out from 32 to 3,560 ft. and thin it from ten inches to less than one inch in four minutes. At the end of the line, a coiling machine rolls the steel spaghetti into a compact bundle. This automated process not only saves manpower, but speeds up output and controls its quality with a precision well beyond that...
...straight 69 gave him a four-stroke victory. Gay tried hard to live up to his name as he accepted the second-place check for $12,000-giving him a total of $20,300 for ten days' work. That wasn't so bad, but his smile grew thin when he thought of what might have been. "You wouldn't be human," he sighed, "if you weren't depressed...
...techniques of alienation only really work when pitted against natural interest and sympathy. Faced with nothing but the thin preachiness of a clumsy scripts, the audience is only too glad to be alienated...
...seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes finally and irreparably cracked. The working-class man saw that the Tories were not necessarily better or even better-behaved than he just because they appeared to be so. One result was a razor-thin margin of victory for Harold Wilson...