Word: thins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weakness is in the sprints. Newcomer Jack Shipman has done 9.8 in the 100, but behind him the picture is clouded. After Beckwith in the hurdles, the squad is embarrassingly thin...
...loudmouthed American generals . . . The peoples of the West-and of Russia and her satellites-are expected to believe that General Lauris Norstad (American general), General Nathan Twining (American general), General Thomas D. White (American general) are the only men who matter." A speech by NATO Commander Norstad opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional committees on U.S. preparedness made by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Twining and Air Force Chief of Staff White were the Mirror's proof of U.S. warmongering...
...desired. A play such as this requires imagination, subtlety, and a sense for absurdity which his staging lacked. The pacing was poor, and the blocking did nothing more than to solve the problem of a large cast on a small stage. The jest of funny characterizations soon wore thin, and nothing was done to sustain interest as the play wore...
...drilling sites; their weight has pressed the Moho to an impossible depth. The best place to drill is the floor of the great ocean basins. The floor may be three miles beneath the ocean's surface, but the Moho lies only three or four miles deeper, under a thin skin of sedimentary deposits and a layer of basalt...
...bright circle as a Yorkshireman who loved good talk, bred fine dogs and wrote remarkable poetry. He made his living as an editor, newspaper draftsman, publisher of broadsides and chapbooks. But his heart was in his clear, spare, melodic verse about nature. He was 46 when he published the thin volume entitled Poems (1917), which fellow poets promptly ranked as one of the best works of the young century. Then Hodgson went off to teach English literature in Japan, and little more was heard...