Word: thick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...
...Pulling Mike through has been a long and complicated job. To prevent the formation of blisters and the deadly "white hemorrhage" (loss of body fluids and proteins through the raw, granulating flesh), Dr. Young covered Mike's burns with vaseline gauze, swathed him in a massive (five inches thick) supplementary pressure dressing of mechanic's waste...
...cockpit was barely big enough for him. Behind him, cramming most of the fuselage, were thick-walled tanks of "lox" (liquid oxygen) and alcohol. Tucked away in odd places, even under his feet, were heavy flasks of nitrogen gas compressed to 4,500 Ibs. a square inch. The windshield (of glass, rather than plastic, so it would not melt from air friction) was too small to give much visibility. From all sides, and above and below, a bristle of controls, dials and warning lights pressed on the pilot's seat...
...done at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, close to the great laboratories of the Engineering Division. The airplane is flown at all possible altitudes, loads, power outputs and rates of climb. It is strained, stunted, landed under adverse conditions. Out of this work, which requires hundreds of flights, grows a thick book of detailed figures on the airplane's performance...
...Tanglewood. Not long ago, Koussevitzky called him in unexpectedly to play the piano solo in the Martinu Concerto Grosso. During the rehearsal, Fine, who was reading the work for the first time, made a mistake. Koussevitzky mistook his grimace for a smile and stopped the Orchestra. In the thick Russian accents which defy reproduction, the Conductor announced, "When we make a mistake in this Orchestra, we don't laugh; we weep!" Koussevitzky was so impressed with the epigram that after the rehearsal he called Fine to his room and repeated...