Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woodward was found dead in an automobile in an isolated area near Los Alamos. Coroner's jury determined the cause of death as self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning after friends testified he often spoke of the "thin line between life and death...
Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
Never far from the side of Bulganin and Khrushchev in Asia was a shadowy Third Man. He had a thin, sharp face with fine lines around pale grey-blue eyes, a firm mouth and straight nose, a high forehead, thinning brown hair and sandy eyebrows. He was broad and short, and it was noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was no ordinary...
...vaccine is the greatest problem the biological industry was ever faced with," said Kenneth F. Valentine, president of Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis vaccine manufacturer. "We never had a tougher product to make . . . The line between making a vaccine that is effective and making one that is unsafe is very thin." ¶ Patients who appear to be fully anesthetized may still be "capable of feeling, hearing and remembering things that happen in operating rooms," Harvard University's Dr. Philip Solomon told the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists in Manhattan. As a result of such improper anesthesia, he said, psychiatrists...
...head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase, Farewell, pretty Saro, I bid you adieu, But I'll dream of pretty Saro wherever...