Word: thins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kind of Victory. Still, it was pretty thin fare for a crusade that set for itself no less a task than the conquest of poverty. No doubt the goals were too ambitious. Between the exaggerated aims set forth in overblown speeches by the campaign's leaders and a hardening attitude on the part of Congress, there was no middle ground, and disappointment was the inevitable result...
...Besides drawing very little power, the devices would work perfectly well in ordinary daylight, since liquid crystals reflect external light rather than produce their own. In the more distant future is a liquid-crystal TV screen. The entire television set, say the RCA researchers, not only would be as thin as a book, but could be watched even in the glaring light of a sun-drenched beach...
...investors were seized by a mania for almost any company with onics in its name-and thousands were burned when the stock market collapsed in 1962. Many brokers contend that the average caliber of companies bringing out stock this year runs considerably higher. Still, there are worries. In a "thin market," the price of speculative securities can plunge as swiftly as it can rise...
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...sometimes he is guilty of playing it a bit too quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character rides off into caricature toward a last stand at the credibility gap. And he finds it necessary to pad his dangerously thin tale with an overlong excursion into Rooster's gun-cocking past...