Word: thinning
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...Book,'' as it was called by the Vietnamese, turned out to be the key to discovering the fate of some of the 2,211 service members the U.S. listed as missing in action in Indochina. Schweitzer worked quickly to scan the pages, storing the images on a thin magnetic tape in his machine. Back at his hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index. Schweitzer made two copies of the original tape. He wound one into a tight spool...
...Disciples had a thin schedule over the fall, competing in only two tournaments...
...Verbal-insult trading is admittedly not a viable option. Hillary Clinton may think a certain Congressman whose name rhymes with "thin witch" is a bastard or an s.o.b., but neither appellation has anything like the force of bitch. The meanest things you can say about a man boil down to attacks on a woman: the mother insult, implying subhuman status and moralsand men can experience its sting only indirectly, at a generation's remove...
...prejudice and promote class warfare. They are fostering an "us vs. them" division between "normal Americans" (the middle class) and the "parasites" (the poor), while the wealthiest quietly continues to amass a greater share of the economic pie. The American principles they claim to support are but a thin veneer for their ugly intentions...
...woman can be too rich or too thin," goes the old saying. Pity, then, America's underclasses, who are not only poor but heavy -- or at least they have been since 1965, when a landmark study showed that the rate of obesity among the lowest economic brackets was five times as great as among the highest...