Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victories dating back to a May 1973 loss to Northeastern in the Eastern sprints, the record of five straight Adams Cup triumphs, the tradition of the Shealy, Cashin et al "rude and smooth" crews and of last year's surprise championship boat--all were shattered by the razor-thin loss...
Stage-door groupies do not throng after Frost. He is sallow-skinned, pouchy-eyed. His suits are rumpled; the thin brown hair barely conceals a balding pate. He gulps pills to avert the double vision he gets from migraines. He gnaws his fingernails. His voice is flat and distinctly non-U. He wears blue suede shoes...
...Crimson linksters fell prey to an inspired salvo of golf yesterday by a B.C. quintet in the Greater Boston Championships, as the Eagles raked the Concord Country Club for a team aggregate of 793 strokes in the 36-hole event. Harvard finished a razor-thin five strokes back in the six-school field...
Nessen said he questions whether or not his personality traits suited him for the job with Ford because he said he is "thin-skinned and short-tempered," adding that "the role of the press secretary is to be a lightening rod, to soak up criticism that would otherwise go to the president...
Nuestro's initial press run was an ambitious 180,000 copies, prompted by a staggering 12.4% return on a subscription mail-out-far above the 2% to 3% achieved by most prospective magazines. Advertising is thin, only 4.6 pages for the first issue. But with his solid capitalization, Lopez will be comfortably solvent for months ahead. "Nuestro will succeed," he concludes. "Latinos have been ready for this magazine for years...