Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defensive. With his thin hair rumpled in the breeze, his coat slung on the seat beside him, he kept his Ford rolling on-from a V.F.W. meeting in Pink Hill, to the Daniel Boone celebration in Salisbury (accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley), to a Lions Club meeting in Albemarle. After every meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking...
...effort to make the race as fair as possible, the Outing Club has devised an elaborate system of time handicaps. Besides the 20minute head start for Balloon-tired bikes, the Club will let American thin-thried and English turning bikes have ten and six minutes handicaps respectively. Racing bikes must start from scratch...
...most acute in Berlin, where two worlds faced each other balefully. Half a million German comrades paraded in the Soviet zone, held high the images of their master Stalin. Three-quarters of a million gathered in the Western zone to cheer anti-Communist speakers. Between opposing camps ranged a thin line of police and occupation troops. At Potsdamer Platz, demonstrators surged from the Allied toward the Soviet sector, hurling stones at its police, shouting "Black SS!" and "Communist pigs!" They were promptly dispersed by West German police...
...this, mingled with spots of dancing and pleasant Leonard Bernstein music, provides nice unorthodox eye & ear entertainment. Jean Arthur makes a brightly boyish Peter Pan, Boris Karloff an appealingly unctuous Captain Hook. At times the syrup gets pretty thick and the fantasy pretty thin; Peter. Pan is not Alice in Wonderland. It is much less dazzling as well as much less daring. But however little a masterpiece, the play is now safely a classic...
...China mainland, Red General Lin Piao was ready for the overwater jump to Hainan. Unlike Nationalist China's other island, Formosa, which lies 100 deep-water miles from the Red-held coast, Hainan has only a narrow channel (15 miles) separating it from the continental shore. Behind a thin shield of gunboats and planes, Nationalist General Hsueh Yueh had tried to pull together Hainan's army of 160,000, mostly remnants of the south China retreat...