Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sick!" wailed Mona Aguayo as the paramedics entered her tiny bedroom at 1:30 a.m. Observed St. Andrew: "She's 96 years old, maybe senile, hurts all over. But basically she's healthy." Carried out by burly firemen, Aguayo seemed like a wounded bird with her thin, angular features, frightened eyes and short silver hair. "My hands! My hands!" she cried. She began to vomit as the ambulance sped toward Santa Marta Hospital, the last "open" emergency room of the night. But her pain and terror were apparently caused by hysteria. The woman was sent home within hours...
...part because the Ministry of Defense is looking to the day when it may have to compensate for lost real estate with extra missiles. "As our overall situation deteriorates," says one official, "we have to reinforce ourselves where we have a vanguard position." Then he adds with a thin smile, "That means the ballet and the Strategic Rocket Forces...
...going to give us our land back, and when?" shouts a burly farm worker. Before anyone can answer, a thin man with a red face rises to denounce Ion Ratiu, the Peasant Party leader and one of three presidential candidates. "He's a capitalist who ought to go back to the West," the man blusters. Retorts another angrily: "Provocateur, who sent you? If you don't like it here, get out before we throw you out!" By now, half the audience is on its feet, and only restraining arms prevent protagonists from coming to blows...
WHEELS. Modern fibers are also making a difference in bicycle wheels, which traditionally feature dozens of thin metal spokes within a pliable rim. While multispoked wheels minimize wind resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with...
...first hint of a breakthrough had come earlier in the week in the form of an unexpected announcement and a picture of a thin-looking man in a grimy T shirt.In notes delivered to an Arab newspaper and a Western news agency in Beirut, the group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine declared it would release one of its captives "within 48 hours." With the announcement came a photograph of Jesse Turner, one of Polhill's fellow captives...