Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vast Funds Are Spread Too Thin...
...able planners, the proposed defense budget leaves the U.S. with cause for rising worry over how much security it gets for its tax dollar. Reason: the 1961 budget, like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads too thin over too many half-finished, half-good or plainly outdated programs, perpetuates costly ideas out of past wars, fails to concentrate spending upon the strict necessities of today and the future...
Through the thin, -104°F. air he fell freely, first face down, then atumble, then on his back-1,000, 5,000, 10,000 ft.-reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape-recorded his "subjective reactions and observations of this interesting experiment." On he dropped, like a stone into a void-until at an altitude of 12,000 ft., 2 min. 58 sec. and twelve miles after he had bailed out, a barometric device on his pack blew open his parachute...
Allen Drury is a thin-haired reporter who spent 16 competent years on the Capitol Hill beat for United Press, the Washington Evening Star and the New York Times before he unburdened himself of a book. Otto Preminger is a bagel-bald producer-director who has a reputation for outbidding everyone for film rights to bestsellers. Last week Preminger and Drury got together on a deal likely to make cash registers jingle for a long while. Happily counting the returns from his Anatomy of a Murder and preparing to start shooting on Exodus, Preminger bought the rights to Drury...
...predominates. From 1911 to 1915, Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment of the human form was alien to Modigliani's romantic, and poetic temperament...