Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American patience wears thin, Lyndon Johnson may find himself in a two-way squeeze. From one side he will be under increasing pressure to bomb the North into oblivion. Already the U.S. has slit open the "red envelope" enfolding North Viet Nam's major industrial centers with a raid on the sprawling Uong Bi power plant at Haiphong; in 18,600 sorties, bombers have plastered targets to within 30 miles of the Chinese border. Yet Hanoi is pouring more men and matériel into the South each month. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a long, costly...
Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...
...Lark. Training-school officials have to tread a thin line between mak ing school a pleasant experience in rehabilitation and just a vacation from city life. Warwick Superintendent A. Alfred Cohen says that his school is "an abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think...
Rich beyond most writers' dreams, Maugham became a kind of semipublic personage, a figure of Edwardian origin and habits, projecting an Ed wardian image on modern scenes. He looked like a character from one of his own novels: heavily lined patrician features, thin lips turned down at the corners, hooded eyes. Traveling the world in search of stories, he napped after lunch wherever he happened to be-aboard a tramp ship plowing the South Seas, in a Burmese hut or an outrigger canoe. Churchill, Wells, Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Kings of Sweden and Siam called...
...services' willingness to lend the companies idle equipment. Carving a jet field at Cam Ranh out of scrub and sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...