Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ranch recuperation, but the strong TV lights accentuated new lines in his face and highlighted a thin, somewhat scrawny neck. It was a long speech-53 minutes-and the President read it rapidly, sometimes almost perfunctorily. It was devoid of any high rhetoric or drama -intentionally so. The President wanted to make it plain that he was saying as much as he could about the war and, at the same time, had far more domestic plans than anyone had imagined...
...Africa, political stability is a thin veneer that can flake off with the slightest scratch of a military finger. Since mid-December, three black governments* have been toppled by military coup. For a while last week Nigeria seemed on its way to becoming the fourth. What makes Nigeria different is that it is no tiny tinhorn republic. It is the continent's most populous nation (56 million people), its economy is one of Africa's most prosperous, and-with 250 tribes and tongues-it has long been considered one of Africa's most democratic and stable countries...
...unlike standard television waves, which penetrate into space but tend to be drowned out by cosmic radiation of about the same frequency, UHF broadcasts could eventually be detected as far off as 200 light years from earth. Each UHF station, says Oliver, sends out its signal in a thin, disklike pattern tangent to the earth. As the earth rotates, that disk sweeps the universe like a giant beacon, eventually carrying its UHF transmission past stars and planets many light years away...
...Harold Brunn Institute at Mount Zion Medical Center persuaded pathologists in hospitals near San Francisco to send them the occluded segment of coronary artery from each heart-attack victim on whom they had performed an autopsy. The two researchers sliced the coronary specimens crosswise, and after examining countless paper-thin specimens under the microscope, worked out the sequence of a typical coronary occlusion...
...feet away, no one hears us. But wherever there's even a half-conversation, we remember the Kremlin s mountaineer. His thick fingers are fat as worms, his words reliable as ten pound weights. His boot tops shine, his cockroach mustache is laughing. About him, the great, his thin-necked, drained advisors. He plays with them. He is happy with half-men around him. They make touching and funny animal sounds. He alone talks Russian. One after another, his sentences like horseshoes! He pounds them out. He always hits the nail, the balls. After each death, he is like...