Word: thinner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distances get shorter the quality gets thinner. Top sprinter and tri-captain Joe Salvo, who ran his first injury free season for the Crimson last year, is back on the trainer's table with a groin pull. He'll sit out today, but is expected to return soon...
...decree started a wave of more casual dress. Men were discarding suit jackets (the equivalent of reducing their workspace temperature by 3°), loosening or shedding ties (saving another 1°) and wearing short-sleeved shirts. Women in offices were turning to halter tops, looser fitting clothes and thinner fabrics...
...meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Administration officials were similarly excluded from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
...situation markedly changed. "I didn't realize five years ago that I was seeing the end of an era," he says. "Oilmen then were still somewhat fat and happy, confident that they'd surmount the energy crisis." This time, Tompkins saw the oil chiefs as "sadder, thinner and less optimistic...
...economy-class seats will be only 18 in. wide, or 2.4 in. less than today's already cramped accommodations. Even narrower will be the seats in an eight-abreast charter configuration-only 16 in. across. Knee room will be marginally improved because seat backs will be thinner and the lower part of the seat in front will curve inward...