Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...type to get worked up over nothing," my friend Rutger Fury was saying, as thin curls of smoke rose from his rose-pink ears, "but I've had it up to here, and I'm not going to take it anymore...
...fiendish design, the highest points on earth loom tantalizingly at the limits of mankind's physiological reach. Mountaineers and M.D.s agree that above 8,000 m (26,246 ft.), a physical curtain begins to fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...wrong? A lot. As Jennie had prospered, so had her guests. They could afford to go to Miami now, or Las Vegas, or Europe or even Israel. A drive to a second home became the weekend of choice, and the city had hundreds of places catering to singles. Besides, thin was in and who needed to stuff their beaks every hour...
Arnold, realizing he had hit a vein, so to speak, followed with Commando, which for a plot had a Kleenex-thin excuse to set Arnold up with an army of extras--quite literally, they played an army--and an excuse to kill them all. Note carefully: this time he was the hero...
Heberle lettered as a sophomore split end last season, but ironically was switched to defensive back at spring practice last year to strengthen a thin secondary...