Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thin young man with the look of an unslept jailbird -- he is wanted by the army, like his best friend who was killed just now -- stops for a second, his body's engine racing, in front of a shop with a mannequin in its window dressed in a stately white wedding gown. The fugitive speaks with a distracted courtesy, wanting to be polite but needing to flee for his life, and then vanishes into an alley. The owner of the shop slams down his steel curtain over the window with the wedding gown. The mannequin bride goes blank...
Nassim and Mahmoud, leaders of the popular committees that run the village, sit smoking in a large bare room. Nassim, 31, is tall, thin, with calm dark eyes, though his crossed leg jumps in spasms when he speaks. Mahmoud is a short, blondish tough guy. They are Butch and Sundance, outlaws of the intifadeh...
...activist who calls himself Yazeed is 29. He bites at his fingernails, his thin face crossed by sudden gusts of anger and fear, and says, "Killing the collaborators will cut the fingers of the Shin Bet." Yazeed has spent seven years in Israeli jails for his work in what he calls the "armed struggle against the Zionist occupation." He refuses to marry: "Why should I? I have nothing to offer my children." Besides, he expects to be a martyr...
...nice? There are scattered reports that he can actually be testy and thin-skinned in private. But let's ignore these and stipulate that George Bush is a pleasant person and, more than that, genuinely decent in his personal dealings. There is a difference between that kind of niceness and decency on the public stage. Bush has perfected the art of substituting the one for the other...
Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...