Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quiet, thin, dressed in a conservative pinstriped suit, Kurt Groenewold hardly looks the part of a firebrand lawyer who would conspire with West German terrorists to bring down the state. But Groenewold is now on trial himself in a Hamburg courtroom for "supporting a criminal organization" and furthering the plots of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, which has wreaked havoc in West Germany for a decade. As Groenewold nervously shuffles papers, his own lawyer politely debates procedural points with the prosecutors. No one shouts obscenities; the tone is orderly and low-key, punctuated only by an occasional muffled cheer from...
Andy Chaikovsky (number four) and Greg Kirsch (at six) took it easy on the crowd by winning their 'azor-thin matches in just two sets each, with Chai zapping Jeff Papell 6-and-4 and Kirsch--a rare Harvard clay-court specialist--taking Andy Caufield in successive tiebreakers...
...Times is trying to annex San Diego is that the city is California's second largest (pop. 798,000) and is expected to grow more rapidly than Los Angeles over the next several years. But the Times' 90-member metropolitan hard-news staff is already spread thin over the 464 square miles of the city of Los Angeles, and the paper was scooped by just about everybody on the biggest local story in years, the "Hollywoodgate" scandals. Otis Chandler, 50, Times publisher and vice chairman of the parent Times Mirror Co., asserts blandly: "We already sell more than...
...Spaceman. Boston's star southpaw by Southern California and out of Zen Buddhism. He was slightly out of breath, pulling his gray-streaked hair back, squinting his thin tanned face. He talked gently, in a California beach mumble, no show-biz, setting me totally at ease, and then he came at me from the stars...
...priest is the Rev. Henri de Grouès, 65, known universally as Abbé Pierre. The only visible indication that he is no ordinary priest is a thin red ribbon of the Legion of Honor stitched on his jacket. But he is the man who, as a former law professor at the Orléans lunch put it, "almost singlehanded mobilized the entire government and people of France to do something for the poor...