Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticized the rule ("I'm disgusted. It's an unimportant change"), found out just how important it was. Yale scored first, ran for two points for an 8-0 lead, forced Connecticut to go for two late in the game. Connecticut missed, and Yale had a hair-thin 8-6 victory. ¶ Ohio State's Frank Kremblas succeeded on two pass conversions, found that they made the difference in a 23-20 victory over Southern Methodist, which could complete only one pass in three after touchdowns...
...radio signals from the first balloon were not picked up because the airplane's receiver was not working properly, but a second balloon dropped into the same storm made itself heard. As Helene moved relentlessly toward the Carolina coast, directional radios tuned to its thin voice could locate accurately the eye's ever-shifting position...
...asked him if he played bridge. "I knew that girls play bridge in the afternoon," says Goren, "and I didn't see why I couldn't. I sat down to play and made a complete ass out of myself." Goren's girl laughed at him-and thin-skinned Charlie Goren, late of Philadelphia's slums, was no man to be laughed at. "It was like putting a knife through me," he says, "and I took an oath that I was never going to sit down at a card table until I knew how to play bridge...
When she eloped at 20 with thin-lipped Oleg Cassini, a dress designer and erstwhile Russian count, her beloved father threatened to sue her for $50,000. Charge: breach of contract with the family corporation formed to control her earnings. (Legally of age by marriage, she had signed a new contract with 20th Century-Fox.) Though eventually settled with a tearful reconciliation, the threatened suit was a severe shock, soon followed by the unexpected divorce of her parents after 25 years of marriage...
...bond prices began to fall with the prospect of higher interest rates, speculators on thin margins were forced to sell, accelerating the decline. As specialists in collateral loans, Garvin, Bantel was active in financing for private buyers more than $300 million of the 2⅝% Government issue dumped so heavily by speculators. The exchange charged that Garvin, Bantel had failed to find out full particulars on its customers, to see whether they could commit themselves so heavily, that it had accepted less than the required 5% margin in some cases. Actually, the firm's part in the bond slide...