Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel being very thin in running will make you faster then you get thinner. A lot of coaches that think that way tend to be male and they don't understand what they'd do to a girl if they said she was fat," says Costin...
...thin young man who murdered four people and wounded three others during a $17,000 bank robbery in Geronimo, Okla., a week ago seemed determined to leave no witnesses. But only three days later, the FBI announced that it had arrested Jay Wesley Neill, 19, the man they believe to be the "Geronimo Killer," at a Holiday Inn in San Francisco. Arrested with him was Robert Grady Johnson, 22, who is said to have driven the getaway car. Behind them they had left a trail of credit-card receipts and travel reservations...
Their paint was like no one else's. Coat after coat was laboriously scraped back with the edge of a meat cleaver and then scumbled again until it looked weirdly provisional, a thin caking of color in the pores of the canvas. The works were gripping yet strangely distant, scratchily insistent rather than speechifying, and their scale was utterly convincing...
...there indefinitely, it could turn into gas and start leaking again. After much deliberation, a team of top Indian and American scientists decided that the safest solution was to reopen the facility for five days or so, just long enough to process the excess methyl isocyanate into pesticide. As thin trails of black smoke once again began to curl out of the plant's smokestacks, 30 workers walked past the paramilitary forces guarding the main gate and reported back to work...
...three girls running nowhere") alternate with hand-me-down Ferlinghetti, sometimes even in the same song ("We walk in easy snakes/ through the roulette rattling of the ethyl"). In songs like Juke Box Fury, the music, jazz inflected and flirtatiously arrhythmic, keeps the language lofted nicely in the thin air as Jones' husky voice snakes around the lyrics. But the record turns dark in mood, and heavy. This is not to say that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work...