Word: thinly
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This mismatch came out in the singing as well. While she had mastered some of the chanteuse's mannerisms -- especially a nasal tone in words like "door" and "more" -- she still tended to be too thin and loud in the high notes, and the pace of some songs was awkwardly slack. Which simply means that she doesn't have exactly the voice for this repertoire; who else comes as close...
...Democrats from moving too far left. The midterm elections of a President's second term usually hand a big loss to the President's party. But in addition to this cautionary precedent, the Democrats know that if they do regain power, it will be by a margin so thin that they won't pass anything without the support of their moderates--and probably a few Republicans. "We're going to have to run the place the way Sam Rayburn ran it," says Michigan's John Dingell, one of the few House members who have been around long enough to have...
...night, I joined a crowd of about 50 people in a circle in front of the Express store in Brattle Square. In the center of the circle was an uncharacteristically modest street performer. Without saying a word, without throwing balls into the air or lighting anything on fire, this thin young man with scruffy facial hair had all of us enchanted...
...Coors Field in Denver is one of the best hitter's parks in history. Andres Galaragga, Dante Bichette et al. may be good hitters, but they hardly remind fans of Ruth and Mantle. With the help of the thin air in Colorado, however, the Rockies put up stats reminiscent of the Bambino and the Mick...
...beginning to unravel the biological basis of overweight. Molecular biologists, for example, have identified five genes in mice that control food metabolism and that, if damaged, can lead to chubby rodents. In humans, physiologists are beginning to track the multiple hormones that conspire to keep fat people fat and thin people thin. And as Redux and fen/phen demonstrate, neurologists are beginning to sort out the brain chemistry involved in appetite...