Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start talking. I think she was putting together a mental list of everything money can buy--a little project to while away the time. And she figured an American should know about luxury. Most country people refused to be taken in, as they saw it, by a thin cotton dress and a limp wallet. After all, you need money to get past that ocean. I would catch this woman scrutinizing me warily and abruptly, waiting for the truth to out about my customary, high falutin' life-style...
...Carter has far more crucial considerations than his appearance. In the past few weeks, he has stretched himself terribly thin to hold together his disparate coalition of support. It reaches from the conservative South through the industrial North, and Carter's politics of reconciliation often leads him into telling various factions what he thinks will best keep them with him. One critic has labeled him Everyman-the candidate who needs everyone's vote. In the debates, all these factions will be listening together and Carter will have to address them as one constituency...
...their abilities to handle the Oval Office job. But one out of two panelists has not yet irrevocably decided how to vote and could be swayed in either direction. This group includes nominal supporters of both Carter and Ford, though Carter's backing tends to be particularly thin...
...Viking 2 orbiter lost its "lock" on the star Vega and began to roll, breaking its contact with mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But even as engineers worked feverishly to correct the problem with the orbiter, the lander was performing perfectly, coasting through the thin Martian atmosphere to a landing only 32 seconds behind schedule. "It's a very interesting thing," commented Viking Project Manager James Martin. "The lander doesn't seem to need...
...transcriptions of Bach and Chopin. Last week's session with the National Philharmonic was devoted to Bizet's Carmen Suite. It is a work familiar to both conductor and orchestra, but still excitement ran high. Stokowski's fabled white mane is now a bit thin and shaggy, but the long, tapered hands still work their expressive magic. So does his pinpointing look. "One conducts with or without a baton," he likes to say, "but it is the eye that really does...