Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he died in 1934, at 48, Ring Lardner wore out, but he never wore thin. In recent, self-absorbed decades, he has been more reminisced about than read. The literate young know him fondly (a middle-aged reader supposes) as a hard-drinking character in one of Damon Runyon's baseball stories, or perhaps as the author who invented the hard-drinking baseball player, Damon Runyon...
...Thin Bench. Most damaging to Carter's campaign was the setback in Oregon, where he had lost a once comfortable lead in the closing weeks to Church. Carter's Oregon campaign manager, Tom Mackey, an advance man for Robert Kennedy in 1968, ascribed the loss to insufficient campaigning and battle fatigue among the staffers caused by Carter's strategy of entering every primary except West Virginia's. Said Mackey: "I had the feeling that our people were running out of gas. With Bobby, the bench was very strong. The Carter cadre has always been thin. That...
...adolescents are skeptical to some extent," says Ulmer, "and the line between skepticism and cynicism is a thin line." There is mounting evidence that many cadets in the junior class-if not in the corps as a whole-are becoming increasingly cynical about the honor code and system. Part of the reason is the code's extreme rigidity. Part is the growing feeling among some cadets that their fellow students on the Honor Committee are as sternly self-righteous-and occasionally as sadistic-as a Puritan elder in early Massachusetts. Says a high Pentagon official: "We have to moderate...
...delegates to Native Son Church and most of Nevada's eleven to Neighbor Brown. In Oregon, which has 34 delegates, Carter was narrowly ahead, but Church's strength was growing; he has spent eleven days so far this year in his next-door state, which Carter-spread thin-has not visited since 1975. The race gained another candidate last week when Brown began a write-in campaign...
Monumental problems still confront Callaghan. Because two Labor M.P.s died in the past month and a third quit the party, Labor's ruling bloc has lost its thin majority in the House of Commons, where it now holds 313 of the 631 seats. Labor still maintains a 38-seat edge over the Tories and can count on a few votes from the minor parties to enable it to continue governing, but it may lose its grip on the important committee chairmanships. The Tories, moreover, demonstrated impressive muscle in last week's balloting for town and district councilmen...