Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This tall, thin guy named Horne led the orchestra and stretched out a couple of things and added a few things to the music. The sound kind of bounced your head a little, cause it's a big place, but I liked it. Sometimes, though the orchestra guys and the chorus guys didn't seem to be going the same place at the same time, but they can get over that. And the tunes are as good as the Stones...
...Prime Minister of Rhodesia stood tall and thin in the cavernous banquet hall of the Meikles Hotel. Before him sat the leaders of Salisbury society, formally attired. They had raised glasses in a toast to their Queen, but nodded approvingly when he warned that they might soon be leaving her realm. Now they listened silently as Ian Smith, in the flat, nasal accent of the settler, read from the eve-of battle speech of Henry V: "That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother...
...preparing his major pronouncements, Charles de Gaulle relies on two basic ingredients:history and mystery. Both were evident in his choice last week of Thursday, Nov. 4, as the moment to make his presidential intentions known to a presumably breathless world. The mystery part was a bit thin (few observers doubt that De Gaulle will run for a second term), but the history was laid on thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover...
...Johnson administration are the guys that should be prosecuted," Gordon retorted. He said that recent attacks on protest groups have shown "how thin democracy in the United States...
...bodily assumption into Heaven, one eminent Jesuit friend of Tillich's was looking forward to having a lively argument with him on the subject. "But Paul said he saw no difficulty with the doctrine whatsoever," he reported furiously. "When every doctrine is a symbol, it all evaporates into thin...