Word: thinned
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...contrary, New York's pennies must have been worn thin and Texas' characteristically outsized. A pound of pure pennies, fresh from the mint, is worth...
...this week Andy May was looking tired, old and sick. With the Garssons' own defense still to come, it would be at least a fortnight before the verdict was in. But Andy May's bluster was wearing thin. As the cross-examination wound up, the best he could muster was a threat to summon the full membership of his old committee, if necessary, to attest to his personal integrity...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...
Probably the main trouble is that Portrait in Black literally talks itself out of being exciting enough. All the characters are so frightfully conversational that they eventually slow down the pace and thin out the action...
...America's, which had fallen behind by about a week's supply in its deliveries of food. But the new crack and the panic in Germany pointed up the instability of. Western Democracy's whole front. Around the world the margin of economic safety was thin...