Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tray after tray, breakfast staff and cooks scrambled to keep up with the demands of a dozen members of the Harvard swim team. Twenty pancakes on a long, thin platter disappeared literally within seconds...
...young girl laughs and waves to the milling crowd as she pumps the pedals of a unicycle with an oversize counterweight fixed beneath. As she tools back and forth along a thin cable strung 19 ft. above the ground, her friends wait for a chance to take a spin. Meanwhile they get an impromptu physics lesson from a guide on how the counterweight and gravity keep the unstable vehicle in equilibrium and prevent their friend from tumbling over...
...think our bench is a little bit thin, so I am recruiting goalkeepers, defenders, midfielder and in particular forwards," Kerr said. "That's my main goal [forwards], because we have two graduating seniors, and I think John Oslowski and Alan Bengtzen are going to need some help up there...
...Crimson will be very thin behind Clemente and Coleman. Their backups are freshmen Onnie Mayshak and Sam Winter, plus Parker in small-ball situations...
...thirst!" But mixed in with the chorus of "Consume, consume!" are the plaintive cries to "Stop the insanity!" Is it any surprise we wash down our Big Macs with Diet Cokes? The only people satisfying the insatiable needs of the capitalist machine and at the same time pleasing the thin-obsessed society are bulimics, the perfect citizens...