Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Called Water Pik, this new bathroom accessory pumps out a thin stream of water that can be regulated from a trickle to a jet. When turned on full blast, the jet of water flushes out food, tickles the ivories and massages the gums, giving a user the invigorating impression that he has just had his teeth professionally cleaned. Its reservoir tank can be filled with anything from mouthwash to vodka, according to the owner's taste. Water Pik also converts into one of the world's most devastating water pistols. Price...
...carpet at Logan, no official welcoming committee, no exploding flash-bulbs greeted a thin 31-year-old Scotsman named Hugh Hunter when he came to Harvard from Cambridge University ten days ago as the first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Fellowship...
Montgomery noted that the Times "seems to be spread pretty thin" in Africa. As a result he said, its coverage tends to be episodic and spasmodic...
...even further by Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel, president of the National Academy of Engineering. Said Kinzel: "Get away from the idea that a steak is a steak is just a steak.' He suggested that a laser beam instead of a knife be used to cut meat with tissue-thin precision and that special blades patterned after the cryogenic needles now used in brain surgery be used to cut and cauterize at the same time. He believes that superhot temperatures can be employed to create new meat textures. Chemicals could also introduce new colors and new smells, says Kinzel...
...very little of interest to say, even to herself, and very little skill in saying it. It is composed of a swamp of hallucinated recollections, in the center of which resides a distracted spinster named Vera Cartwheel. She dithers madly and endlessly about her childhood, which was spent-in thin reality or thin dream-in a fantastic seaside mansion in New England. There she lived, or never lived at all, with an opium-soaked mother, two butlers, only one of them real, a spooky lawyer named Spitzer and a nursemaid named...