Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbor and his wife carried Kim Seng's mother to the burial ground, the boy walking behind them. Kim Seng was quite weak and thin. The neighbors buried his mother, burned incense, and departed. Then Kim Seng knelt by the grave and burned three incense sticks of his own. Finally he took a handful of dirt from each of his parent's graves, poured it together in his hands, and beseeched his dead parents to look after him. He then returned to the mobile team...
...very last step of the Widener stacks staircase stands a single wooden desk in the corner where Church History and Theology meets Chinese History and Literature. A thin, spectacled figure sits hunched over it; he looks up in surprise when a stranger approaches him. "This desk? I found it more or less by accident a while ago, looking for a book. It's nice," he says...
...Vellucci is also walking a thin line--falling out of favor with the Independent bloc might hurt his re-election chances in 1983. He might decide his safest alternative is to back Russell if it appears he can't get the votes himself...
...Nobody has provided a decent line for any of them to say, let alone a scene that would allow them a memorable moment of fright or, for that matter, a shadow of the wit and style that had been bred into all their bones. The whole enterprise is as thin as an unoccupied shroud, less menacing than a Mickey Mouse cartoon and about as entertaining as an airline departure lounge...
...Once in a funny, odd-shaped house/ There lived a wee maid and a mouse./ The mouse was fat, the maid was thin./ The house was new-they'd just moved in." So begins the shaggy-mammal story The Maid and the Mouse and the Odd-shaped House (Dodd, Mead; $9.95). Told in rhyme as infectious as the prescriptions of Dr.Seuss, the tale comes complete with the kind of conclusion that dissolves children in laughter at every telling. The house, it turns out, is more than odd-shaped, it is cat-shaped, complete with legs, whiskers and a roar...