Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Desert Shield coalition so subject to upheaval, patience in the gulf waiting game is wearing thin. In a BBC interview last week, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said the anti-Saddam forces would need to decide "in a matter of weeks" whether the economic sanctions against Iraq were sufficient or whether to prepare to go to war to liberate Kuwait...
...have to borrow so much money from the credit markets that interest rates would be pushed upward in the midst of a recession, which would make conditions even worse. "We are skating on what may seem to be firm ice," says Harvard political economist Robert Reich. "But it is thinning rapidly, and we really don't know how thin...
...thickness of the Brahms betrayed another flaw, however: the string players did not have the depth of sound which Pressler easily commanded. While they blended extremely well with each other, they sounded scratchy when playing with the piano. The violin seemed thin and whiny in the high register and could have benefitted from a looser vibrato. The final cadence of the first movement was uneven but effective...
...thin double line of protesters--fewer than 20 in all--paled in comparison to the crowd of 150 or more law students who gathered in front of the Charles Hotel an hour later to protest the presence of another law firm--Chicago-based Baker and McKenzie--which protesters alleged practices discrimination...
After the brief protest of Seyfarth and Shaw, the thin group of demonstrators made its way to the fourth floor of Griswold Hall, where the firm's recruiter was to meet with law students...