Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some polls indicated that your support, while broad, is rather thin, and there is resistance, for example, among some Catholics and union leaders. How do you propose to deal with this...
...late '40s, researchers began to discover traces of DDT ?which degrades, or breaks down, very slowly?in the tissue of fish, wildlife and humans. At about the same time, scientists began to report that the chemical was causing some species of birds to lay eggs with abnormally thin shells that broke during brooding; as a result, the numbers of ospreys, peregrine falcons, bald eagles and brown pelicans were declining. These revelations were followed by the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, which began to crystallize anti-insecticide sentiment. But the coup de gr?...
Silent Movie is very much like a revue, laughs hung out on a thin line. It is a line that Brooks walks with zany skill, however. He is a tightrope artist who makes it from one side to the other with just a couple of false steps, and he has the inspired, reckless lunacy to turn a couple of handstands along the precarious route. All without a net, too. Jay Cocks
...column business. But back in Sioux City, Iowa, last week they were Popo (Pauline Esther) and Eppie (Esther Pauline) Friedman again at the 40th reunion of their high school class. Abby was amazed that 300 of the 400 in the original class turned out: "I figured only the thin and the rich would attend." Did her old classmates seek Abby's advice? "Well, a few asked for my private address so they could send me letters...
...love this American view of learning as the tool by which man transforms himself. We Americans believe that everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. There is something admirable about this, yet nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential...