Word: thinly
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...uniform, Amy DiVirgilio can easily be mistaken for a student walking in the Yard. The thin, 5-foot 5-inch 25-year-old with dangling earrings and brown hair pulled back in a ponytail appears to be just like any college student...
...general populace seems to agree, and patience is wearing thin. "The public thinks unions are just interest groups acting at the cost of public welfare," says Nam Sung Il, a labor expert at Sogang University in Seoul. Activists appear to have worn out their welcome at Myeongdong Cathedral too. Says associate pastor Lee Jun Sung: "The church shouldn't be exploited as an arena for this kind of fight," adding: "These people just barged in." To drive the point home, the church has cut off electricity to the cathedral...
Patrick Malahide is magnificently irascible in this role, his frosty wit a thin veil flapping erratically over the vulnerability that now defines him. Barry sympathetically depicts Silvester as a man who knows he has done wrong, but believes that his motives were always noble. "What a pity love is no defense" he reflects, an image cleverly crystallized in a tale of his childhood, when he accidentally transmitted a fatal fever to his baby sister by hugging...
...legacy of Germany's 50-year rule includes wide boulevards, ornate squares and choucroute, pickled shredded cabbage with chunks of pork and sausages. Another local delicacy is tarte flambée, a thin-crust pizza topped with cream, onions and bacon. Both are often washed down with Alsatian wines, like Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer, though beer is also popular in Kronenbourg's home town...
...similar amendment proposed in December 1999 failed to gain a two-thirds majority by a razor-thin margin, receiving 45 favorable votes and 23 unfavorable votes...