Word: thinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...LIKE your ketchup thick or thin? Think carefully before you answer--it could be a matter of national security...
Stephen Fleming's solo in the opening number, Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl," was thin and stilted, and Daria Witt's lead in the next number, Smoky Robinson's "Tears of a Clown," was too reserved to convey the song's emotional power. However, both numbers were tightly arranged and well-staged. And the next song, "Since I Fell for You," made for a nice change of pace, with Amy Daley's lead skillfully communicating vulnerability...
...girl, what mattered after delivering the baby was cloaking her latest humiliation in a thin veil of dignity. On the way to school, she reportedly told a friend, "There's been a rumor that I'm pregnant, but I'm not," and invited the girl to feel her tender stomach. "She refused to admit that she had given birth once she lost the baby," a friend of the family said. "It was as if she could not comprehend it." Her teachers didn't help: though she had faithfully attended classes, they say they never realized she was pregnant...
Although Yeltsin holds support by only a thin margin in the 1,068-seat parliament, his position was strengthened three weeks ago by a question he inserted into the national referendum. Seventy percent of those who voted said yes to his idea of a popularly elected President, for which he would be the clear favorite. Last week's rally, for which plans had been announced even before the referendum, would burnish his image still further...
...former colleagues at M.I.T. owe O'Toole an apology, if not a job. And like other scientists currently facing critical scrutiny -- including AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and cold-fusion gurus Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons -- they owe it to themselves to take a close look at their thin-skinned response. Making mistakes is part of science. But blindly denying the possibility of error goes against the heart of the scientific method. Baltimore seems to have worried more about a colleague's reputation than about the truth of a junior researcher's complaint. In the end, he damaged not just...