Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end city police strengthened their coverage of uptown gang areas. But their blanket was too thin. One night, only 73 hours after the Farmer attack, 18-year-old George Marshall, standing on a Bronx street with a friend, was set upon by five boys and two girls, stabbed to death as his companion ran for help...
...Then a second and more specialized TIME press run begins. The sound, instead of the roar of rotary presses, is the soft plunk of a six-key braille typewriter. Mrs. Miner is laboriously pecking out TIME'S cover story (25 minutes for a braille page) on sheets of thin white cardboard...
...million blunder by Dallas' big Burrus Mills, which undertook to store 37 million bu. of surplus wheat in special tents three years ago because conventional grain-elevator space was unavailable. Floods came, starlings pecked holes in the thin canvas, rats and insects invaded the tents. When time came to release the wheat, much of it was fit only for animal feed. The Agriculture Department is withholding $4,700,000 in storage fees and wants another $8,000,000 in damages. Sadly, Burrus admits it owes the U.S. $10.7 million, questions only $2,000,000 of the Government...
Fortnight ago, as the church was being consecrated, the thin, flat paintings caused a national flutter. Parishioners gaped up at Jesus as a boy in a red sweater, Mary in a black dress and black silk stockings carrying a shopping bag, Joseph in a Trilby hat and yellow zippered jerkin, John in rolled-up shirtsleeves and corduroy slacks, and Peter in a grey flannel suit...
Fields and Friedman interested British Chemist John Milsted, who wangled some time on the Stockholm cyclotron, the only one in operation capable of projecting a sufficiently intense beam of carbon ions. Milsted also undertook the tricky job of making curium into a thin film, and sandwiching it between aluminum foil to form a suitable target. The apparatus was arranged so that any atoms of element 102 formed would be knocked out of the target and would stick to a "catcher foil," a bit of plastic film...