Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article has certainly disproved the saying that "you can never be too rich or too thin...
...admire you, and food you can't eat, and unless you do eat it, they'll put you in solitary." Hellman remained obdurate. She would not even let her lawyers inform the committee about past attacks on her work by the Communist press: "In my thin morality, it is plainly not cricket to clear yourself by jumping on people who are themselves in trouble...
...corrupt. Industrial plant directors bent upon fulfilling the Plan adulterate their products to increase quantity. Pills come out at half-strength. A canning engineer admits: "If we add less sugar to the jam, we can produce more canned goods and meet the Plan." Window panes are often made so thin that most are shattered before they can be installed in apartment complexes that begin losing bricks just after the tenants move in. (Jutting screens are sometimes installed above the first floor to catch the falling bricks...
Myra Maymen assures him that he will get the correct time and the permission to shoot Sara Caldwell. Then, like everyone else Rick bumps into at Harvard these days, Maymen tells him how thin he's gotten. His illness caused him to drop to half his size in the last three months...
...says he's got 20 pounds more to lose and that he looks so thin because he's playing an old trick that Jimmy Curley originated. "When you want people to feel sorry for you, you try and look like a sick old man--you wear big clothes...