Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hawass's team has explored four tombs, with a total of 105 mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made of plaster-coated linen, or cartonnage, that was painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery...
...Class of 1994 had the benefit of entering Harvard during a period of hightened mobilization. Yet the class didn't seem to get much out of the Desert Storm debate. With each succesive June, the market in thin-skinned fire-brands gets weaker and weaker...
...damage to Bush is not that now everyone thinks he did drugs," an adviser says. "No one cares about what you did 30 years ago. The lasting damage is the way he's reacted, showing his annoyance and anger. He's beginning to look like a guy with very thin skin. And the problem is that it's true--he does have very thin skin...
...desk when I was working late. "Yeah, Dad, that was me," I tell him. His blue eyes--destroyed years ago by glaucoma and cataracts--stare forlornly back at me. "Well, that's what you keep telling me," he says. He looks sad, confused. He starts making a thin whistling sound, a sign I recognize as his signal of distress...
...Here is what you will see: a human visage fills the screen, registered so tightly that its ears are outside the frame of your picture. Its jaw muscles are working, its eyes intent on something or someone outside, for the moment, your field of permitted vision. Sometimes a thin stream of a liquid substance you'd rather not think too much about emerges from its purposively pursed lips. If you have the sound on, you may learn that this enormous face belongs to the pitcher and then surmise that this pitcher throws right-handed, since he seems to be cocking...