Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience. Back home in North Carolina last week, speaking to the Chamber of Commerce, Helms moved easily through the crowd, always deferential, always courtly, touching in his folksy way on the mess the country is in. He listened to the familiar urgings to keep up the good fight. A thin film of sweat covered his face, a reminder of Helms' intensity; he is not a gregarious, double-handshake politician who thrusts himself at crowds...
...personal liberty." The appeals court had upheld the argument that since Pennsylvania accepted money under the statute, it was obliged to guarantee those rights. Rehnquist disagreed. The bill of rights section "does no more than express a congressional preference for certain kinds of treatment," he wrote. It "is too thin a reed to support the rights and obligations read into it by the court below." Even the dissenters agreed with the majority that the appeals court had gone too far in taking over Pennhurst...
...came there to live she was a young pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from here eyes and left them a sober gray: they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled...
...remarkable recovery. Beneath the surface mood of thanksgiving, however, are questions of just how his presidency may have been altered by the shooting. Will there be the same physical vigor? Will there be the same hard edge of resolve? So much in national leadership hinges on the thin margins of presidential energy and determination. Any change in Reagan's mind or body can make a great difference...
Jonathan Hart, a very distant echo of Nick Charles in The Thin Man, is described as a "self-made millionaire"whose "hobby is murder" on Hart to Hart. But his business connections are tenuous, and how he made all those millions is never clear. Mrs. Oleson, who with her husband runs the general store in Little House on the Prairie, reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where...