Word: thinned
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...there was a crisis on. It seemed a time for the trumpet call to meet imminent danger, but the trumpet note was never heard. The President's words were simple and clear, but the message-like so many of Harry Truman's non-political utterances-had a thin, overworked and flat quality. His speech, in fact, had gone through ten draftings and it showed...
...that moment sharing a chicken luncheon with his father and father-in-law in a working-class apartment in the dusty, dirty Batignolles district above the Gare St. Lazare, Paul Colin was not aware that he had captured the year's literary jackpot. Novelist Colin, a thin, retiring young man, was living on unemployment relief...
...reached a point above 28,000 ft., may have reached the summit; they disappeared in a mist and were never seen again. All who have tried to climb Mt. Everest have been beaten by the near-stratospheric cold, the almost continual gales, the treacherous, sliding snow and the thin, high...
John Steinbeck fared even worse, but made less fuss about his failure. His novelette, Burning Bright (produced also as a play that flopped), was a slick but transparently thin plea for universal love. Robert Penn Warren went back to his native Kentucky for a frontier novel of violence and tortured emotions, World Enough and Time. It had power and murkiness in about equal proportions...
Italian novels were still being imported, but in diminishing number and quality. Best of a thin lot was Alberto Moravia's Two Adolescents, two fine, perfectly turned long stories about difficult boyhood. Worthy but dull, at least in translation, was Riccardo Bacchelli's ambitious, much-praised historical novel, The Mill...