Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took us a while to get known," he says. But business is now brisk; whereas Rare Earth had to sell 20 properties in 1975 to gross $700,000, just three of the ten properties it has sold this year brought in the same amount. Still, profit margins are thin because overhead runs about $5,000 a month. That includes base salaries for Van Haefton and his wife (six other employees work on straight commission), heavy advertising expenses and a lot of travel...
...cousin, once a thin, cerebral chemical engineering student at the University of Maine, left school five years ago when he decided to teach himself how to build houses. He has learned well and has also bought farmland and taught himself how to farm. Now he looks as strong and healthy as a bear. My cousin is the best argument I've yet seen for Wing and Cole's assertion that people should teach themselves how to build, and for the larger assertion that people should learn to rely more on their own skills...
Despite those brave words, every white Rhodesian realizes that "fighting through thick and thin" may become a savage reality if the Geneva Conference on Rhodesia remains stalemated-which it has been since it convened at the end of October. All that seems to be keeping the conference alive is a reluctance by Smith and Rhodesia's four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-to bear the blame for torpedoing Rhodesia's last real hope of avoiding a bloody civil...
...Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
Reich's account of his life is essentially a thin outline on which he strings the clichés of the gray flannel '50s and the youth rebellion at Berkeley and Yale. As in The Greening of America, he wafts nonsensical generalizations like dandelion seeds: "An alienated society is no less a political tyranny because the oppression is found within each individual, rather than coming from a single source such as an army or a dictator...