Word: thinned
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...moon, for instance, are covered by a three-inch layer of dust tossed out of meteorite craters. Last year a cloud of yellow dust was seen for a few hours on Mars by Tsuneo Saheki. Struve thinks it was probably stirred up by a meteorite striking through the thin Martian atmosphere and shattering Martian rock...
...Vinay did his sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced on from time to time with props and a snippet of scenery. All in all, what had been bright staging in Greenwich Village seemed pretty thin tinsel at the gilded...
...walk in the park in the rain, "Yes" if he asks for a chance to explain, "No" to all slacks unless you're too thin...
...bare outline of his life. Short of biographical details, Biographer MacEóin has resorted to sifting the collected writings in an effort to separate Cervantes' own experience from the fiction with which he embroidered it. The result, while rich in surmise, is a little thin as biography. After reading Cervantes, those who would like to know its subject better are likely to find themselves right back where they startedstaring into the sad, heroic face of the mad knight who called windmills his enemies and wore a barber's basin as a helmet...
...clogged your heart'll bust"). He writes with poetic affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane or ditch and it bled white...