Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even though still attached by the thin tether, the astronauts can release their handholds and drift free, out of reach of the orbiter's gunwales. They can literally become human satellites, a thought that is both thrilling and somewhat sobering...
...gently scattered his slain mother's ashes into the thin Himalayan air from the open hatch of an Indian air force transport plane. Then Rajiv Gandhi, 40, returned to New Delhi last week and boldly took Indira Gandhi's place in the oak-paneled Prime Minister's office. His first official act was to assure his fellow citizens, via nationwide radio and television, that he would honor his mother's democratic, nonaligned policies. Rajiv then confidently called parliamentary elections for Dec. 24. One opposition candidate: Maneka Gandhi, 28, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay...
...gone to the Sandinistas and the front's presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 38. The early results also appeared to guarantee a substantial smattering of representation in a new 90-seat National Assembly for the six other parties on the ballot. The veneer of pluralism, however, will be thin. Four of the parties in the race, including the Sandinistas, were Marxist-Leninist in orientation. Of the three non-Communist parties, one, the Independent Liberals, remained on the ballot even though the party leadership had tried to withdraw from the race, charging that the contest was unfair...
...spectacle of human beings with bones as thin and brittle as dead twigs produced controversy as well as compassion. The Rev. Charles Elliott, a British relief official who until last month was the director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the intention of destabilizing Ethiopia's Marxist government. M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development, denied such charges and instead blamed the Soviet Union for its "callous indifference" to the plight of its African ally. The Soviets, said McPherson, have provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion worth...
Against an insinuating stillness, eerie at first, then almost instantly recognizable and reassuring as a cradle, four shapes appear near the top of the high stage, spinning. They wind and slide slowly down thin umbilical ropes suggesting, as they unbend near the ground, unborn children tumbling through the birth canal...