Word: thins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles de Gaulle is extremely thin-skinned about criticism or ridicule from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then...
Harvard proved it could play with the top teams in the country on the spring trip, but some things were disturbing. The Crimson is woefully thin and if injuries continue to strike, things could go badly in the future. And, while the defense, led by Bob McDowell and Mike Ananis was strong, the midfield and attack need to work more on coordination...
...lights change to a fixed "DON'T WALK" for traffic to contentedly break into a shuffle. Just then a 9-year-old girl, blonde hair wheeling, a Titian on thin limbs, ambles resolutely into the street, waving her cigarette. The cars squeeze to stop, the girl reaches the opposite bank and vanishes into the faulted crowd. If Moses were alive today he wouldn't be a bearded patriarch swinging a knobby wand...
Atlanta has Henry Aaron, naturally, but the pitching still looks thin and now left fielder Rico Carty has been lost for the season with tuberculosis...
...Bisque used children's Modeling Dough to mold a mantle around a solid core. The core was attached to a spindle that the scientists used to spin their model earth, accelerating it to simulate the effects of tugging magnetic fields. When the modeling compound dried and formed a thin crust, its larger cracks clearly defined major stress planes that were tangent to the core...