Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wood stove in the living room provides the only warmth on cold days. The seven children huddle together under a thin, frayed blanket. Sometimes they play word games, but mostly they just sit and listen to a car radio hooked up to an old battery. The most popular song of the day is "Soldier of Happiness." It goes...
...nature of weather, they say, for wild fluctuations to occur. Their proof: there is a record broken every day somewhere in the world. But after last week's weather -- which showed every sign of being this week's weather as well -- the standard reply starts to wear a little thin. Why are so many records being set in so many places right now? Could it have anything to do with the holes we've drilled in the ozone layer? The forests we've leveled? The greenhouse gases we've pumped into the atmosphere...
...Felt him Slipping Away" and "Breakfast over Sugar" as she tries to keep Marvin from leaving her. As Marvin's high school teacher, Rosemary Loar is generally funny in her over-the-top characterizations of the schoolmarmish yet sexually hungry Mrs. Goldberg, but her voice occasionally seems too thin. Julie Dixon seems less adept than the other two women in switching between being Marvin's high school sweetheart and being one of the chorus: while Loar and Kiley are distinctive as Marvin's wife and teacher and occasionally even let those roles seep into their chorus girl functions, it seems...
Reno is pure oxygen in a city with thin air, and she has gone to its head. Senators say she is Clinton's most impressive Cabinet member by far; the New York Times called her "a prized asset." When fans surround the table where she's eating dinner with Barbra Streisand, it is Reno's autograph they want. Jay Leno called personally, hoping to get her on the show. He offered to move the taping to any time convenient...
...involved parcels that exploded on college campuses, among them Northwestern and Vanderbilt. The last attack prior to this week, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in February 1987, may have sent the bomber underground after a witness described a man with reddish-blond hair, a thin mustache and ruddy complexion dropping off a burlap bag that later exploded outside a computer company...