Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day we hit the swamps that have long deterred those curious about the Ndoki. We pick our way through the quicksand-like muck by feeling with our toes and walking sticks for a series of thin logs Japanese researchers have previously laid down. I slip once and fall up to my chest in mud before grabbing a root. Sobered by the slip, I ask Fay how deep the mud is. "Who knows?" he says, shrugging...
...thin white tubes that nearly fill one cardboard box are pieces of tobacco pipes, Stubbs says. Mostly English in origin they were used between 1640 and 1760. Archaeologists can date the artifacts according to the hollow pipes, because over time, they were made with smaller and smaller holes...
...then there are the many different thicknesses, fits, an textures: Ultra-thin. Form-fitting. Large Snug-fitting. Viba-ribbed. Non-lubricated. Lubricated. Lined and contoured condoms adorned with stimulating dots. There is even "Nature's Bookbag," a condom wallet for those who value discretion...
...clothes, are devilishly difficult to sweep up and are lousy for the environment. Yet those ubiquitous, annoying Styrofoam pellets seem to swaddle just about every fragile object sent through the mail. Now Cal Garland, a Suwanee, Ga., lumberyard owner, has patented a machine that manufactures fluffy curls of paper-thin wood shavings that do the job just as well as polystyrene. And after the package is opened, just dump the wispy curlicues into your backyard: they also make a mighty fine mulch...
While the natural inclination is to dismiss Robb as merely another member of the lunatic fringe, one cannot so easily dismiss the forces that drive his crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January...