Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moving up through the crowd of runners, we found our pace as the pack began to thin a little, leaving room for a normal stride. One of the first highlights of the race was a glimpse of Groucho Marx running by in a tailcoat, undershorts, bow tie, glasses and cigar, speeding through the field in characteristic bent-over running style...
...main cluster of building formed a long rectangle, which was set in the middle of a great field. About half a mile to the right the calm edge of the Atlantic Ocean rubbed against a thin strip of sand. The grass was strangely green, despite the season. On the far side of the chapel the vague outlines of athletic fields were etched into the ground, and in the distance, to the left of the science building, stood the tiny observatory, a traditional sanctuary for lovers, or so we had been told...
...being borne by the Hispanic working people who helped elect him - and who account for most of the city's 6.6% unemployment rate (vs. 4.2% in Dallas and Houston). For them, the novelty of having the nation's first big-city Mexican-American mayor may quickly wear thin. Acknowledges Cisneros: "I'm not interested in being the first anything. I just want to be the best I can be." By - RussHoyte. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/San Antonio
...recapture the innocence he knew at Devon as a student but finds the same violence he thought he had escaped. Instead of adding depth to the Hochschwender Wexford confrontation, his observations reduce the action to a series of cliches. Reflecting on "that monster war," Hallam sees it "sending last thin even here to this still reverberating around the world even here to this little rural corner...
...seems to be a belief that the U.S. needs a good purging. Someone breaks a new window in the chapel; four athletes corner a suspect and, while trying to force a confession out of him, bring on his death. A teacher then meditates on "that monster war-sending last thin death waves still reverberating around the world, even here to this little rural corner...