Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aquinas and Sir Thomas Browne, various Bibles and historical chronicles, lie open on high oaken tables or under glass. Their pages emanate the same subtle dust observable on the wings of a moth beneath a lamp. In the Founder's Library at New College stand row upon row of thick Latin treatises bound in ivory. And as I look through the notices in TLS of Sotheby's auctions, I discover that some of these volumes are still obtainable, at a price...
...last strains of "Love Me Tender." Out on the dance floor, Spike and Mary Lou were snuggled against the fading melodic strains of "their song." The music died and a hush fell over the crowd. The band paused. The heavy, murky atmosphere of the late-night bar was thick with anticipation...
...North, the I.R.A. bravado took on a more fatal form, to others. At the sleepy border village of Belleek, a rocket hurtled through a thick steel-encased window of the local police station, killing a 55-year-old police constable, the father of six children. Across Ulster, 17 similar rockets were fired, though they caused no more fatalities. The weapons were identified as RPG-7 rocket launchers, a more sophisticated and modern version of the World War II bazooka; they are commonly manufactured in Communist countries and used by many Russian allies...
...Night Thoreau Spent In Jail. Trying to re-create the success of their Inherit the Wind, authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee can't do for Henry David Thoreau what they did for Clarence Darrow. Ideas are thick and the drama is this, although audiences don't seem to mind...
...puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with an overbearing taste of oak from overlong storage in the cask...