Word: thinning
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...half his department, is worried about keeping the parish's remaining 182 deputies on the payroll. All his communications and tactical gear, along with most of his department's 136 vehicles, were lost. With the National Guard largely gone, his men are stretched thin, answering calls about looters and snakes. "We have lots of reptile infestations," says Stephens, who fled one house after encountering 15 water moccasins. "[That's] not in my contract." His men last week caught beasts of a different kind--an organized gang of looters...
...figure out what to do with it. When The Producers came calling, it was hardly a sure thing. A screen-to-stage adaptation of a Mel Brooks comedy three decades old, it has no hit songs and very little in the way of witty dialogue. The plot is tinsel-thin: Max, a crooked Broadway producer, and his nerdy accountant Leo concoct a scheme to make millions off a show that's calculated to flop...
Didion is a tiny woman, under 5 ft. and skeletally thin. Her clothes hang on her like hand-me-downs. Ropy veins stand out on her arms and hands through her translucent skin. She answers the door to her Upper East Side Manhattan apartment with a perfunctory whispered greeting, barely raising her eyes from the floor, then immediately shuffles away again. She has the air of somebody who has reached a point in her life where she is dispensing with the unnecessaries...
...With what we're doing in Guant?namo, we're on thin ice to push on this." U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, quoted in a Human Rights Watch report issued last week; the document claims that the U.S. is toning down demands that Malaysia end its practice of holding terror suspects without trial...
...such intelligence as an actress and it’s a very tough part. It’s tough to play an optimist convincingly. And as an actress I knew she could walk that very thin line between optimism and realism. We tend to think that optimists are not very bright…but all the great spiritual thinkers know that the ultimate intelligence is to go for the light, and that’s why Julianne’s so great...