Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Moyers' emancipated ways have landed him in deep trouble with the fundamentalists back home. He smokes half-a-dozen long, thin, 25? Fiesta Brazil cigars every day; he even took to sipping a few watered-down bourbons each week. As a result, he has received quite a few "Brother Moyers" letters from hard-shell Baptists who have heard evil rumors of his dissolute ways. Only recently, he decided to give up drinking altogether-not only because of the furor but also to please his stern-principled parents. It was just as well, for he only recently brought...
Though his father was never much of a moneymaker, the family lived comfortably in a two-bedroom white house with green shutters. At 14, a "thin, scrawny, tallow-faced boy," as his father recalls him, Bill went to work sacking groceries at the A. & P. for 75? an hour, still found time to write for Marshall High School's newspaper The Parrot (whose most famous staffer was Lady Bird Johnson), serve as a cheerleader and bandsman, play the role of the parson in his senior class play One Foot in Heaven, and rack up a scholastic average...
...base in the Seychelles Islands to that end. The Labor Party, still officially committed to maintaining British bases east of Suez, is also pondering the question while preparing a defense White Paper due next spring. With both parties agreed in principle on the need for some reworking of the "thin red line," the new thinking may well produce repercussions throughout the Commonwealth, Europe and the entire Atlantic community...
Sixty-five years ago, when the U.S. population stood at 76 million, a thin 6% of the nation's 17-year-olds graduated from high school, and only 4% of the college-age youths were in college. To day, with the U.S. population grown by nearly 40%, to 195 million, an impressive 71% of the 17-year-olds are getting their high school diplomas, and about 30% of the college-age population is in the classroom. To pay for all this, Americans are spending $42 billion this year, and to make education work, they are providing 125,000 schools...
Whenever the jokes, out and in, started wearing thin, a production number bounced onstage. The music was infectious, the staging deft, and the singing bearable. The Choreography Committee had a sense of humor. The tunes were surprisingly good, and even if some were stolen, they were stolen with taste, the same way Anthony Newly does it. Arrangements a la The Fantasticks and chord progressions from jazz standards...