Word: thinly
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...commute on the freeway, you are standing in the kitchen about to prepare a healthy, satisfying dinner for your spouse, your two school-age children and yourself. As usual, all they want to know is "What's for dinner?" and "When do we eat?" You dump a box of thin spaghetti into a pot of boiling water, zap 3 cups of green beans in the microwave, pop a loaf of frozen garlic bread into the toaster oven and pour a medium-size jar of marinara sauce into a saucepan to simmer. While all that's bubbling, you chop up half...
Barbara Cox was distraught. By the time the Darien, Conn., fund raiser was in her mid-50s, her hair had become thin and wispy. "I didn't want to go swimming," recalls Cox. "I didn't want to exercise because when I did and my hair got wet, it made the receding spots particularly apparent." Despite her distress, Cox never uttered a word. "I felt kind of silly obsessing about it, but it was increasingly important to me." Finally she broached the topic with her husband. "He said, 'You look fine. No problem,'" she says. But that didn't stop...
...With an anti-choice President and Congress, a woman’s right to choose hangs by a thin thread,” Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts Melissa Kogut said during the rally...
...lacquered paper fan provides style and comfort to the subtle and well-mannered women who carry them. The paper is thin and delicate, just like you pretend to be as you attempt to trap a good man and lure him into marriage...
...persuade other nations to contribute cash and troops have fallen short; Congressional approval for the new aid request on top of money already spent, are under increasingly alarmed scrutiny especially in the face of predictions of greater expenditures to come; and U.S. troops are stretched so thin that rotations are delayed, more Reserves and National Guard must be called up and the Marines have been asked to forego their classic expeditionary mission in favor of stabilization tasks...