Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various communities in Lebanon, what could have possessed the Israelis to allow the Christian forces to enter the refugee camps? Had they conspired with the militiamen to root out the last vestiges of the P.L.O. and Muslim leftist military opposition in West Beirut? Had their ranks been spread too thin to keep the executioners away from their victims? Or had they simply been careless about giving the bloodthirsty militiamen a chance to run amuck? Whatever the answer, the government of Menachem Begin had a lot of explaining to do. It may eventually have a lot to regret...
...standing with the public continued to decline. A poll conducted in July by the respected Allensbach Institute showed that the Christian Democrats could win an outright majority of 53.7% in national elections, in contrast to an alltime low of 31.4% for the Social Democrats and a dangerously thin 5.1% for the Free Democrats. The Greens-Alternative List, an amalgam of leftists, environmentalists, pacifists and other radical groups, would win an unprecedented 9%. The result represented a dramatic decline for Schmidt's coalition, which had won a combined 53.8% in October 1980, vs. 44.5% for the Christian Democratic Union...
...though sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety the bursting fan of foam over the rocks in White Wave, 1954, is like a Monet haystack made of water, not grass. But the major Averys, like Sea and Sand Dunes, 1955, or Speedboat's Wake, 1959, are thin, taut, nearly as evanescent looking as weather itself. Their pictorial construction is achieved almost entirely through color: the weight of a red, the brooding distension of a purplish sea against a blue headland. Nothing is subordinate in such paintings, and their dialogue between feeling and repression .is like nothing else...
When Middlesex district finally came in, the Harvard associate dean learned he had won a razor-thin victory in the Democratic state Senate primary election...
...direction in which the prisoner can evolve-that of increasing artfulness. In the hothouse atmosphere of his social environment he cannot escape this fateful transformation of his character. He feels his claws growing, a furtive and dejected, an impudent and servile look creeps into his eyes. His lips become thin, sharp, Jesuitical, his nose pinched and sharp, his nostrils dilated and bloodless; his knees sag, his arms grow long, and dangle gorilla-like. Those who uphold the Theory of Race and deny the influence of environment on the development of the human being should spend a year in prison...