Word: thinly
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...dark past, about the struggles and the hard times, in particular about the car accident that left his wife paralyzed. They were on a tour of Tainan county to thank supporters in an election he had just lost. His wife, Wu Shu-chen, a narrow-framed woman with a thin face, was walking at the head of the party, Chen was toward the back. A black truck came roaring around a corner and struck Wu, running over her legs. The driver stopped, put the truck in reverse and then backed over her. Chen swears it was a politically motivated attack...
...thin dawn light, Cohen raced to a nearby cave once home to an old hermit. Inside, the sight was indescribable. A rock the size of a computer rested on Kobi's smashed skull. Both bodies were covered with stones. Blood smeared the walls, and the dirt floor was muddy with it. When the searchers rolled the rocks away, they didn't see faces but unrecognizable pulp. "I had only one thought," Cohen says, standing in the cave two days later. "To get my hands on the killers...
...crunch could ease later this summer. Massive productivity increases have already led to added capacity, and increasing inventories should stall soaring prices and lower refiners' margins. Still, the refining and distribution system is severely strained. If rolling blackouts in California hamper refining operations, supplies could thin out again, not just in the West but throughout the country, as distributors race to reroute gasoline. If there are no disruptions, then wholesale prices should drop. The real question is whether gas-station owners like Saroki and Glazer, hurt so badly these past months, will pass those savings...
...Krokodiloes made a more traditional appearance, but in the spirit of the BJ Show, ended by throwing pies at each other. On Thin Ice, one of Harvard’s improvisational comedy troupes, did a short sketch, including “Party Quirks...
People like Randall Adams, who was nearly executed for the 1976 killing of a Dallas policeman until Errol Morris’s 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line, demonstrated that Adams’s principal accuser had in fact committed the crime...