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...Legislators of the day worried that paying for “internal improvements” might not fall within their constitutional powers, and the war stretched political capital thin....
...In the decades after my father died, I often sensed a thin line between purpose and futility....
...On arrival at the auction house, I made my way to the main hall, a harshly lit confusion of thin glass cabinets and loose items for sale, to wait for the day’s bidding to start....
...The US Senate confirmed Christopher Waller to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on Thursday by a razor-thin margin, in a reflection of the political tension over Donald Trump’s final picks for the central...
...The thin air, boundless unpopulated spaces, the trees clinging to life... It all takes the mind in contemplative directions. There is a prairie existentialist in all of us....
...Famous for the unprecedented barbarity of Lee Marvin throwing a pot of boiling coffee into the face of his girlfriend, Gloria Grahame....
...This lost landscape, which we now call Doggerland, was home not only to woolly mammoths and rhinos, giant sabre-toothed cats, hippos, hyenas and elk but to Mesolithic humans....
...The evening is illuminated by the thin sodium glare of street lamps....
...The soundtrack is easy listening — The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye — but the movement is self-consciously clunky and uncomfortable....
...A rare whiff of excitement saw the chairman questioned last year over possible bribes related to elk-hunting outings. 2015 Toyota, carmaker gambling on hydrogen 2016 Dong Energy, once a coal-intensive...
...“We were on very thin ice,” recalls Dr Eric Siemers, a scientist on the project....
...By the end of January, actor Alan Rickman and scientist Marvin Minsky were among those who had followed them to the grave. The tone was set; thick and fast, it seemed, the famous fell....
...Peel the potatoes and cut downwards into very thin slices, stopping just before cutting all the way through, so the slices remain connected along the bottom of the potato....
...It has also made life even harder for those straddling the black community and the thin blue line....
...It looks like a thin layer of tar but may cause runoff issues in the flash floods and heavy rains that sweep through the canyon seasonally....
...Today, O’Sullivan is a stick-thin, poodle-haired and youthful 61-year-old in a button-down denim shirt....
...Instead the market appeared to be unwinding some of the excessive dollar weakness that occurred in thin trading over the holiday period....
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