Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been the garage's second parking level, shining flashlights on the mangled remains of cars and trucks that had been blown to bits. "Hey, look at this," said an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Joseph Hanlin, a bomb expert from ATF, picked up a thin, charred, twisted bit of metal about 18 in. long. "This is something that we need to take...
Thankfully, his nefarious scheme was foiled by the contractors. The walls are thin enough so that conversations with neighbors are never a problem. (In fact, they're often involuntary.) And whatever sounds the walls stop, the pipes pick up and transmit through the entire house...
...particularly poignant with the family ranchers, not the King Ranch of almost 1 million oil- rich Texas acres or the Mormon church's Deseret Ranch in Florida, which runs 34,000 head of cattle. The big combines will survive. But the little guys are in jeopardy, a thin denim line of about 250,000 from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, leasing in varying amounts about 280 million acres of mountain and high desert range from the U.S. government...
...walls are really thin, so you can hear everything that goes on," says G. William Winborn '95, house committee vice-president...
When you skate on thin ice for too long, it will eventually cave in on you. After surviving two ominously close calls last week at Cornell and Colgate, the luck of the Crimson (18-3-2, 15-2-2 ECAC) finally ran out last night, as Dartmouth (10-13-0, 8-11-0 ECAC) shocked the third-ranked Crimson here in Thompson Arena...