Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...though after all he has dialogue that even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught me in the second grade. No amount of makeup could make Albert Finney look like that nun, and I guess he wasn't perfectionist enough to go on a starvation diet. The second problem is that Finney can't sing...
...CHUBBY little girl in blue stretch-pants and a sweatshirt walked up and said, by way of introduction, "Hi, do you like to shoot guns? I do. I have my own 22 and my father makes bullets." She held up a lump of metal hanging from a thin chain around her neck. "He made this necklace. It's a bullet...
Harvard's already-thin squad suffered more injuries against Army, with sprinter Ed Diamond coming up with an injured leg. Bob Clayton, who was knocked to the ground in the 600-yard race against the Cadets but came back to place in the 1000, is a question mark due to a cold. Ed Nosal, who won the weight throw last weekend, is leaving to get married. "We'll defer to matrimony," McCurdy granted...
...heroes, now antiwar groups in their own land denounce the cause for which the men were fighting in language like that used by the enemy. Crank telephone calls interrupt whatever tranquillity they can find. President Nixon has pronounced himself pleased with their patience, but their patience is wearing thin. Increasingly, some of the wives complain that the U.S. Government is not doing enough. Some of them have been driven to espouse the offer put forward by the Viet Cong's Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh in Paris last September: that talks on releasing the prisoners would begin when the U.S. agreed...
...guilty plea is voluntary and valid-at least when there is strong evidence of guilt-even though the defendant says that he is entering it only to escape execution. The result of the court's decision is a boost for the "plea bargaining" system that helps crowded courts thin their dockets by skipping trials...