Word: thins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening-night curtain call at Eubie! would certainly have astonished the patrons of Miss Aggie's bawdyhouse in Baltimore, where James Hubert Blake played ragtime piano at the turn of the century. Thin as a blade, remarkably spry and mentally trigger-quick, Eubie confounds his 95 years. At Broadway's Ambassador Theater he mounted the stage, accepted a single rose in tribute, engaged in amiable banter and joined cast and audience alike as they roared out their affection by paraphrasing his biggest hit: "I'm just wild about Eubie...
When directed to give her name, the pencil-thin, brown-haired woman in the witness chair of a congressional hearing room said nervously: "Marina Prusakova Porter...
...also ordered up his own National Guard reserves. Reportedly, he did so with reluctance because of suspicions that they might not otherwise remain loyal and turn over arms to the rebels. In any case, Somoza needed the extra help. His regular guard forces were said to be spread so thin that some were taking Dexedrine to stay awake and were so distraught that they shot civilians and even unarmed Red Cross teams...
There are meaningful warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must by very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy...
...mass of the deceased star. Typically, this frontier is an imaginary sphere tens of kilometers across that defines the size of the black hole. It is the point of no return that scientists call the black hole's "event horizon." Anything crossing this border would be stretched spaghetti-thin, pulverized by gravitational tidal forces, and sucked into the singularity. To an observer outside?say an astronaut watching his abandoned craft plunge into the black hole?the result would be different. Because of relativistic effects, the spacecraft would appear to move ever more slowly, and closer and closer to the event...