Word: thinly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mother's rejection that wounds Laetitia most. "She is hiding it about my brother," she cries. "Why will she do nothing for me?" Her hands pick restlessly at the quilt covering her paper-thin frame. "I know my mother will not bury me properly. I know she will not take care of my kids when I am gone...
Beneath a translucent scalp, the plates of Gertrude Dhlamini's cranium etch a geography of pain. Her illness is obvious in the thin, stretched skin under which veins throb with the shingles that have blinded her left eye and scarred that side of her face. At 39, she looks 70. The agonizing thrush, a kind of fungus, that paralyzed her throat has ebbed enough to enable her to swallow a spoon or two of warm gruel, but most of the nourishment flows away in constant diarrhea. She struggles to keep her hand from scratching restlessly at the scaly rash flushing...
Although the Penn women's basketball team--winners of 11 straight--stands alone and unbeaten atop the Ivy Standings, the Quakers looked vulnerable in razor-thin wins last weekend. Tonight at 7 p.m. in Philadelphia, the Crimson (7-11, 4-1 Ivy) aims to be the first to spoil their precarious perfect record...
...Keith tried to round up Tina and Maralyn and one other swing justice against Mitchell, but when push came to shove he was all alone, lying to the camera about how "You just look tired" (though Mitchell is getting very thin). Jerri got a vote from Maralyn, which would have been fun if Mad Dog had had any help...
...Republicans can't afford to leave any more votes behind. What the razor-thin national margin showed was that every vote counts. Bush cannot write off the black vote, a growing political force in Florida (back voters made up 15 percent of the total vote in 2000, compared to only 10 percent four years before) if he wants to stay in office four years from...