Word: thinned
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...that very thin line running down the side [of the film] is supposed to be a sound track, you have hurt the technical spirits of sound engineers everywhere...
...copies of Wordsworth's sonnet, Upon Westminster Bridge. The Etonians leaned heavily to 16th Century chancery-a tight, slanting, angular style brought by Vatican scribes to Elizabethan England, which avoids loops, keeps "t's" and "p's" short, uses a broad pen for contrasting thick and thin strokes...
...crowded Chamber chorused "Muito bem-hear, hear," Brazilian Deputy Plinio Barreto boomed: "For reasons of demagoguery, electoral expediency or exhibitionism, Senator Gillette has roused an anti-Brazilian movement in the U.S." A Nicaraguan cartoonist drew Senator Gillette stripping Central America's coffee trees to their roots with a thin, blue blade...
...friends and acquaintances, shy, scarecrow-thin John Peet was not easy to ken. At 34, he had gone through an odd succession of careers: enlisted man in Britain's crack Brigade of Guards, English teacher in Prague, private in the Spanish Civil War's International Brigade, policeman in Palestine, chief Berlin correspondent for Reuters news agency. Some people considered John Peet insecure, haunted and unhappy; others regarded him as witty, well-informed and likable. Allied officials in Berlin had privately marked him down as a Communist or at least a fellow traveler, who passed information to the East...
...fancy and flashy" musical ideas he had been storing up since he was a boy. His shenanigans almost got him fired when a CBS station manager in Cleveland accused Jenkins of "bastardizing the airlanes" by jazzing up the classics, told Bandleader Jones to "get that thin kid out of here...