Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girl hops out of the doorway, her loosely tied sleeping bag unrolling all over her arms. "Not too optimistic, eh?" a passing male snickers, suggestively eying the bag. "Maybe," she answers lightly. But she can't quite pull it off. Between the sleeping bag and her uncertainty, a thin red blush swims up over her face. Clearly, life was easier in some ways when girls were expected to sleep in separate quarters...
...high altitude and thin Rocky Mountain air have hampered some of the Harvard swimmers, and only two of coach Stephanie Walsh's women made their way into finals on Thursday. Adele Joel stroked to an 11th-place finish in the 50-yd. breaststroke with a 32.43 clocking. Emily Feldman turned in a 2:19.61 time in the 200-yd. backstroke, a finish good enough for 14th-place honors...
...Thin...
Crimson assistant coach Mary Ellen Dash said after Thursday's competition that the Harvard times were respectable considering the difficulties caused because the swimmers are not used to the thin Nevada...
...have had contact with any cholera carriers. Now a British researcher offers a novel explanation for these mysterious outbreaks. Writing in the British Journal of Hygiene, Dr. Charles Rondle and his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine suggest that the cholera came, literally, out of thin air-as contaminated discharges from highflying commercial aircraft...