Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reputation in the cynical, self-aggrandizing world of Washington nearly without blemish? "I'm sure he has faults," says Charles Duncan, a former Secretary of Energy, who worked with Powell in the Carter Administration, "but I couldn't point to one." Some associates have seen Powell as thin-skinned in the past, but they say he monitors his flaws carefully and is quickly "self-correcting...
There were also prolonged exchanges of artillery around three other towns north and east of Sarajevo, leading some military analysts to suspect that the Bosnian-government forces were trying to stretch the Serb defenders as thin as possible, probing for a weak point to exploit. They made progress in places, and U.N. observers said they had cut some Serb supply routes...
...hope the U.N. peacekeeping mission can hang on long enough to help produce a negotiated settlement, which some experts believe might finally be possible. The Serbs have held their 1,000-mile-long front lines for three years, and their field army of up to 80,000 is stretched thin. The Bosnian government's forces lack heavy weaponry but have grown to about 150,000 troops. "The Bosnian Serbs are overextended," U.S. General John Galvin, the former NATO commander, said in Washington last week, "and they are outnumbered." Still, they have artillery. Norman Cigar, a military analyst at the Marine...
...popular handbook Estrogen: The Facts Can Change Your Life! (HarperCollins; $11). The natural waning of estrogen in the middle years often brings physical changes that can ruin a woman's pleasure in sex. The vagina basically reverts to its prepubescent shape: narrower, shorter, dryer, less elastic, with thin walls that tear easily and are prone to infection. The libido may also dry up, if only because sex becomes painful. While many women are spared these problems in their 50s, the odds are they will strike to some degree within a decade of menopause...
...there may be fair warning here that the author is a club member too. Would-be writers cursed with the thin childhood material of loving parents and sensible households may suspect a touch of exaggeration when, more or less safely delivered into adulthood, Karr rummages in the family attic. She's looking for the six or seven wedding rings from her mother's rumored but stubbornly unacknowledged previous marriages. What she finds is the artificial leg of her despised dead grandmother...