Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, Argeros notes, "Through thick and thin we can always count on them, and we have only the highest respect and regard for them...
...crucial buffer against North Korea and the Soviet Union, is an impartial but uneasy spectator. To the Reagan Administration, the question is less who wins than the size of the victory margin. "We can work with anyone," says a State Department official. He fears, though, that a razor- thin win by any of the candidates would leave the new President without a clear mandate and lead to renewed instability...
...throne, however amateur his status as an architecture critic. And they were all the more jarring to Britons who consider their capital the embodiment of cultural sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left...
ANOTHER very natural human activity is going to the bathroom. Unhappily, ours is a culture which encourages people to shut the door when they defecate, as though it were an unspeakable act. How sad. Until all people--Black, white, gay, straight, fat or thin--realize that they all shit alike, as co-equal members of the human race, how can we truly be free...
Some mad scientist in Hanover should get to work on jet-propelled skates. Otherwise, the Big Green will find itself skating on thin ice tonight...