Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals prove to be more than another mirage, Nixon's repeated claim that progress is being made will be justified. The Administration sorely needs to show some visible gain. The moratorium on criticism of the war in Congress and among the responsible antiwar groups is wearing poster-thin. During the past two weeks, delegations of students, mothers and business executives have renewed their complaints about the war in Washington. Last week, 1,300 Quakers picketed the White House. Two ranking Senate Republicans, Chief Whip Hugh Scott and George Aiken, the party's senior Foreign Relations Committee member, have...
...other Arab lands. So long as their deadlock persists, Israel gets to keep the occupied territories, which it is putting to profitable use, and Nasser enjoys an external aid to survival, presented by the fact of the Israeli enemy at Egypt's gates. It is a treacherously thin high wire that Nasser walks, and he could easily fall?or jump?from...
...from coast to coast are buying the nude look. In Cambridge, Mass., the buyer for a new shop, True International, reports a dizzy business in see-through shirts. "We can sell anything that is transparent and purple," she says. New Yorkers do not care what color it is: tissue-thin voile shirts are turning up like daffodils all over the city. In Washington, D.C., a lady reporter turned heads at the White House correspondents' dinner with a bare-midriff, see-through pajama set. Being diplomatic (or missing the point), George Romney asked: "Who is the blonde with...
...easy as it looks." Despite two weeks of video-taped dry runs, he did not transmit the Cronkite-like "casualness" that he had promised. His normally easy Irish smile switched on when it should have been turned off, and during his patriotic peroration his thin, reedy voice cracked like the Liberty Bell...
Eliot House padded its lead in the Straus Cup race last Friday as they captured the intramural track championship by a razor-thin margin over Winthrop and Quincy. Eliot finished with 38 points in the meet, and Winthrop and Quincy had 37 each. The remaining points were scattered among five other teams, while Lowell House was shut...