Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long blonde hair. Thin rings of silver trailed from her pierced cars. Almost a parody of the Northern White "Liberal," she bounced confidently and sensually over the red-clay Georgia road, her sandals flicked up small clouds of dust, her face full and bright and her eyes flashing and darting as if she were caught up in a desperate search for someone to greet. The road was lined with small gray shacks of the sort owned by whites and rented at exhorbitant prices to Negroes. As she neared a cracked old structure that had settled dangerously on its western foundation...
...Cliffie loves sweets, but attacks her favorite foods discreetly. If a half of a cake is left over she will cut herself paper-thin slices "almost to make believe I'm not eating" until the whole thing is gone. At home she picks away at icing irresistibly, even though her family gets enraged at the "mothholes...
...reflector of the world's biggest radio telescope is nothing more than a dish of chicken wire lining a 1,000-ft.-wide hole in the ground. Above it, three tall thin towers poke toward the sky. From the towers' tips, cables string out to suspend a tangle of girders over the center of the bowl. The complete contraption looks like the product of some errant giant playing with an outsize Erector set. But at its dedication in the hills south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, last week, the great scope was tuned and ready-a sharp and farseeing...
Cosmic Dust. This reassuring news was delivered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the authority of a firsthand report. For seven months, the satellite Explorer XVI orbited earth, inviting meteoroids to hit the instruments that encrusted most of its surface. There were cylinders of thin sheet metal containing helium gas that escaped when they were punctured by a meteoroid. There were instruments that gave an electrical signal when sunlight showed through a puncture hole in plastic film. There were also sensitive microphones that registered 15,000 occasions when something hit them hard enough to make them vibrate...
...night a week, often on poor fields with inadequate lighting, and a team's repertory is likely to be dictated by circumstance as much as by design. The Townies rarely try end sweeps because their practice field-"The Oily" (so named because it is covered with a thin film of oil)-is split by a sewer...