Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thin Man, Friday and Saturday, October...
...Thin Man [1934]. This is one of the finest comedies of the thirties. Dashiell Hammett wrote the script from his own crime novel of the same name, and drew the marriage of Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
...than myself." So said Harold Wilson last week as he watched the results of Britain's second general election in less than eight months. Despite polls that showed the Labor Party winning by a margin of possible landslide proportions, Wilson came out of the election with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority-319 seats in the House of Commons, or two more than half of the total-and the smallest popular vote (39.3%) for any majority government in Britain's history...
...time on less than crucial matters, to report to Donald Rumsfeld, 42, his newly named "coordinator of White House operations." For someone of Ford's democratic disposition, it was a tough order to give, but it had to be done. Observers feared that he was spread too thin, and had not yet made a successful transition from the leisurely politicking of Capitol Hill to the continual decision-making grind of the White House...
...breast and within about ten minutes had removed the lump. It proved to be 2 cm. in circumference-no bigger than the tip of a man's little finger. A technician rushed the lump to the pathology department, where it was fast-frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast, its underlying pectoral muscle, and lymphoid tissue in the adjacent armpit. This tissue was also sent to pathology...