Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time Aaron told me he was fat, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. A 5'11," 160-pound swimmer, he was lean and lanky, and as I thought privately, too thin. Yet there I was, sitting with him in the parking lot of his high school, listening to him as he complained about his body...
While Adams gained a thin veneer of respectability from his participation in electoral politics, he and his followers command attention mainly because of their links to the I.R.A. Yet Adams firmly denies being a member. "It's illegal," he says. "I could get 10 years. But I am at pains not to distance myself from them. Even if I did, no one will believe me, and besides, I accept that I have a responsibility to the same constituency." Catholics in Belfast stick together for protection and support; Adams was formed by the ethos of a community under siege. At least...
...surprised yelp when that insidious little thought entered our head. We don't want to diet. We hate dieting! We shouldn't have to be thin, and if you think we should, you can go to hell...
...play of colors and emotions. During rehearsal, she will station an adviser in the hall to help her gauge dynamic levels, but otherwise her concessions to deafness are few. "I don't think in terms of loud and soft," says Glennie. "Instead I think of sounds as thin or fat, strong or weak. The amount of sounds you can create with just one cymbal are infinite...
...performance as a scholar last month at the Kennedy school of Government's ARCO Forum, prompts my protest against the sorry state of political discourse. There is plenty of toleration for error in an entertaining, "show-biz" format, but little tolerance or patience with truth. Steele, famous for one, thin, bestseller, "The Content of Our Character," said the difficulties of Blacks today result from "a failure to adjust to freedom" and repeatedly denounced policies like affirmative action as "preferences...