Word: thinly
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...Hart, author of "New Hat," took the stage first. Tall and thin, he seemed the antithesis of his squat, ovular characters. Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. Using an overhead projector, an assistant switched transparencies made from Hart's book, "The Collected Hutch Owen," while Hart read the dialogue and even such onomatopoeia as "blip" and "wham." Afterwards he took questions from the moderator and audience...
...three men are left on guard, the rest crammed into a tiny room lined with iron beds. Squatting around a smoky hurricane lamp we eat a meal of stale bread dunked in thin soup and drink strong black tea. After finishing, two of the boys turn to karambol, a game like pool in which flat counters are flicked across a board. Farid, another section commander, sits intently loading an ammunition belt with machine-gun rounds. Allah Mahmad lounges on one of the beds and talks wistfully of wanting the kind of education for his four sons that he never...
...have to run," said National Security Adviser Condi Rice speaking with reporters after the Putin meeting, "because you know when the President is ready to go, the President is ready to go." With Bush gone, that meant the end of the security sweeps. Loaded down with thin blue plastic bags of custom made clothing, antique paintings and embroidered pillows they had picked up in moments they weren't tracking the president, reporters were spared the two hour security search that had been scheduled before departure. We boarded our plane without even a sideways glance from security officials...
Quetta. It's over a month since the September 11 madness, and my wardrobe is wearing thin. I was rushed here from an assignment in Cambodia, and all I have are two extra shirts, a pair of trousers and my swim suit - hardly useful attire for covering a war in a desert when the nights are turning cold and sharp. There's ice on the pomegranate trees. So I went out and bought one of these heavy woolen shawls in the bazaar. Good camoflague, too. I thought I'd blend right in. But instead of looking noble and chic...
...leader in a time of national crisis. Then, silence. For the past three weeks no Cabinet officer has been seen less by the public. The ever suspicious press started asking questions. "Everyone wants to know where you are," an aide told Cheney last week. The Vice President offered a thin smile: "Don't tell them...