Word: thinning
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...National Intelligence, an honorable man who would not overstep his bounds. "I trust him," she said. "I haven't accused him of anything. I was, and remain, concerned that he has the proper authority to do what he is doing." A legitimate concern, but the Democrats are on thin ice here. Some of the wilder donkeys talked about a possible Bush impeachment after the NSA program was revealed...
...says his mission is clear: "If I help the soldiers with their personal lives, it will help them focus while they are out on their missions. As the saying goes, 'A soldier enlists, but the family re-enlists.'" With war costs already so high and the Army stretched so thin, that's one front where it can't afford losses...
Experienced preachers behind him felt fleeting anxiety that King might miss his landing, because he was in full passion on a peroration unsuited to close. The "sneeze" run always came earlier in his speeches, being informal and thin. King sputtered at the podium, then slipped a gear. "And they were telling me--now it doesn't matter now," he said. "It really doesn't matter. I left Atlanta this morning ..." He told briskly of the bomb scare on his plane and how the pilot had announced that threats to King had generated a precautionary overnight guard for the aircraft...
...that picked up and dumped a stretch of asphalt on cars near Star City, Ark., killing seven people, and the first squalls hit Memphis half an hour later in slanted sheets of rain. Phone calls from the Lorraine to Lawson in Mason Temple verified that the crowd indeed was thin--perhaps fewer than 2,000 in the huge hall that had packed seven times that many for King's visit on March 18. He feared the sharp drop-off would invite belittling stories of a downward trend for him, along with the riot and new federal injunction. "Ralph," said King...
...seat down with the Purel by the card-swiper’s desk for the umpteenth time, we figured it might deserve a prominent mention. If we can’t—how shall we say—mate los microorganismos, we might as well put a thin sheet of wax paper between them and us.Though our chimneys were blocked as of fall 2003, that still shouldn’t keep Santa from delivering on our wishlist. Taken together, fixing these ten easy problems could revolutionize the undergraduate experience at the College. Or, at the very least, it?...