Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thin tome lays out the creationist views in the form of stories a father beetle tells his son Bomby about the ways of the bombardier family. The text is peppered with scientific terms like amino acids and catalase, but it is so riddled with errors that entomologists cannot begin to guess where Rue got her information. (For example, the beetles do not spray their eggs with tear gas for protection, as the author maintains.) Biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, one of the world's leading bombardier experts, says of the book, "I've never seen anything like...
...have to fake going into the war because I was interested in the war's affect on my own and America's consciousness. I stopped with what I was actually experiencing through my senses and maybe only once or twice imagined what it would be like to be a thin-bodied Vietnamese kid blown up by, napalm. I wrote about my experiences while driving through America in a car, reading newspapers, thinking my thoughts, and having my sexual desires. It makes a good time capsule of the mid-60s and it doesn't fake experience I didn't have...
...addition, Bail is concerned that the undergraduate Black community may be "spreading thin. Under a random system there might be 20 Blacks per House at the most, and it's unfortunate the number can't be higher. Over the years, you've seen Leverett. Adams, Quincy, Currier serve as Houses where you'd go to get a sense of the Black community. Under a random system, people coming to Harvard looking for a Black community might not see much...
...bone is protected only by a thin shell, and the doctors advised the sophomore not to play until next September, when the bone will have sufficiently hardened...
...Laughter of Carthage. There is enough internal evidence (allusions and outbursts of Yiddish) to conclude that Pyatnitski's gene pool is thoroughly integrated. Rabid anti-Semitism is his way of denying the past and advancing his career as scientist and gentleman. There is also ample indication of a thin line between deceit and self-delusion...