Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this archaeology grad student isn't your average Indiana Jones. He's tall and thin, wears glasses, and looks like he'd be more at home in a library than in a pit full of poisonous snakes. He seems perfectly comfortable in a tie and suspenders, and it's hard to imagine him in boots and bush hat, carrying a whip...
...given the even split in the Israeli public, the National Unity Government accomplished more than either party alone could have, governing inevitably in coalition with small parties and commanding only a thin majority in the Knesset. The public is tired of the instability of Israeli politics and the seemingly petty and self-serving disputes among its politicians...
When health writers were asked to a private lunch with Jane Fonda last summer, one of the journalists panicked. "I have to be thin to meet Jane Fonda," thought the columnist, who then proceeded to binge compulsively on bagels. "Instead of eating one, I ate three." An understandable lapse for mere mortals summoned into the presence of the U.S. Goddess of Fitness. But the nervous nosher was a no less exalted figure: Jane Brody, the nation's High Priestess of Health. At the meeting of the two unrestrained Janes, though, it all worked out true to form. Brody, after politely...
...searched old faces and made broad gestures when memory clicked into place; yes, the hair is thin; yes, the belly is big. Winston Hart, 71, was there, a very tall, strong-faced man called "Hemlock," with powerful knotty arms, his pants held up by braces, who was a woods foreman for the Brown Paper Co. Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories...
Some South Africans fear that this sell-off of financial assets may not be the final U.S. corporate move. "Disinvestment is most likely the thin end of the wedge," said the Financial Mail, South Africa's leading business weekly. "The next demand could well be that no IBM or General Motors products be sold at all in this country." Such demands might be unlikely right away, since most agreements between U.S. companies that leave South Africa and their licensees guarantee continued delivery of the departing firm's products for a stipulated period of time. But new pressures for U.S. companies...