Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boyle, thin and haggard at 72, some times relying on a wheelchair, betrayed little emotion as he was led out of the courtroom, head bowed. Said Sprague: "I felt right back from the beginning that it was Boyle. I knew that I would never get to the top in one snap. It was going to be a slow process. Had we lost any one of the previous cases leading up to Boyle, the chain would have been broken...
MacKenzie's pitching staff was responsible for Yale's surge to third in the EIBL last season, but this year his mound corps is thin, as graduation claimed his five top starters, including ace Bob Corcoran who signed with the Cards. His only experienced hurler is righty Don Gallagher, who was 3-4 last year. To add to MacKenzie's woes, none of his returning lettermen batted over .300 last year...
...Mustangs are parked along the grim treeless streets. Each house has a small grass backyard. The train passes through tracts of brick warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman, her apron stained with the morning's chores, is on her knees under the kitchen sink, banging away...
...last generation at least, liberals and centrists have dominated the field of syndicated columnists. David Lawrence's death last year left a thin list of conservative pundits who have large audiences. Beyond William F. Buckley Jr., James J. Kilpatrick and William S. White, there have been few compelling voices from the right. Now they are getting reinforcements...
...knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...