Word: thinly
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Straining even more to avoid giving offense, except to good usage, the < dictionary offers comfort to very short people (though not very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
...pensions without offering any idea of how he proposes to raise the money. He runs pretty much a one-man show: he has made little attempt to organize his legions of admirers into a political party, and his staff of advisers and idea people, though excellent, is stretched very thin. Ironically, in fact, Yeltsin can carry out his program only with the cooperation of at least part of the very Communist Party bureaucracy and central Soviet administration he assails so vigorously...
...back as 1970, a church panel, echoing Fletcher's approach, declared that "sexual expression . . . cannot be confined to the married and about-to-be-married." Irate traditionalists got that year's assembly to reaffirm the sinfulness of adultery, fornication and homosexual practice, but their motion passed by a paper-thin margin...
...Israel while turning a blind eye to atrocities in the Arab world and elsewhere. Here Dershowitz hits upon a thorny problem. The anti-Semitism he describes surely exists--his collection of anti-Semitic hate mail is evidence enough of that--and many do use criticism of Israel as a thin disguise for anti-Semitism...
...increase the speed," the diminutive eighth-grader advises Aki Shimizuishi. "Take your time, get the notes, know where they are, and then get the beat." Aki, 17, looks down at the short alto drums, which are cut from large oil containers. He strikes a few of the notes with thin, rubber-tipped metal mallets and winces when the tone doesn't sound quite right. "It is tough just getting the letters straight," he says as he tries to play the first bar of When the Saints Go Marchin' In. A number of his classmates and a few of his teachers...