Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those luxurious boondoggles, the bureau provides junketeers with a detailed memorandum to submit along with their expense accounts. It drones on for 60 eye-glazing pages and is numbingly titled A Report on European Urban Policy and the State of Local Administrative Affairs. To give the journal a thin veneer of originality, names and dates are changed each year. Yet every report begins "It is impossible to find the right words to describe such a priceless experience . . ." and concludes, "Seeing is believing...
Kirk said he saw a short, thin, Black man wearing a "big black overcoat and white hat" enter Serendipity, leave the store with "one garment" and drive away in a blue two-door Chevy toward Harvard Square...
...speech entitled "Human Rights in a Paper-Thin Democracy: The View from Medellin, Colombia," Dr. Pablo Emilio Angarita, director of the Instito Popular de Capacitacion, told a crowd of approximately 50 people how he has struggled to protect citizens while being harassed by the Colombian government...
...richer if they were not limited to 1600 students. Engineering more academic contact between first-years and upper-class students could only do good things for Harvard's neophytes. With any luck, the eagerness first-year students bring might rub off onto those of us whom Harvard has worn thin...
...General Khalid bin Sultan, meet several times a day, as do their main deputies. U.S. ground troops have been assigned to a sector along the gulf and south of Kuwait, while 30,000 Saudi and Islamic troops are deployed west of U.S. positions and in the far north, a thin line between the Americans and the Iraqi and Kuwaiti borders. U.S., Saudi and British fighter planes are monitored day and night by AWACS radar aircraft, which feed their information to an air-control station at Dhahran. The ground station relays flight instructions to all the fighters, which maneuver in assigned...