Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, and are expected to be one of the most popular styles this fall and winter-even for women whose less than perfect figures have until now kept them out of pants. Unlike jeans, which tend to reveal everything, palazzos conceal everything, even fat hips, skinny thighs and thick calves. "They give a gal who has something to hide the place to hide it," explains Francine Farkas of Alexander's department stores in New York City...
...trainee in a New York City corporate office, and instructed him to ask 100 secretaries to retrieve some information from their files. First the actor dressed in "lower-middle-class" style: black shoes with large buckles, a greenish-blue suit, a white shirt and a chintzy blue polyester tie, thick glasses and a gold expansion watch band. In that garb, he was able to get only twelve secretaries out of 50 to go to the files for him. Later, in an "upper-middle-class" outfit-styled hair, expensive blue suit, beige shirt, silk polka-dot tie and brown cordovan shoes...
...elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rest until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...
...Democratic Convention only six weeks earlier. Their ability to strike quickly and effectively had not diminished; during the final two days of the Republican Convention, they arrested over 1400 persons, dutifully photographing and booking each one and advising them of their rights. The streets outside Convention Hall were thick with crowd-control gas, but inside, Richard Nixon addressed an overflow audience which embraced him with unabashed warmth...
...biblical times, Israel was indeed a good land. It had thick forests in the north, rich farm lands near the Dead Sea, and oases that dotted the desert in the south. An astonishing variety of animals thrived in these regions; archaeologists have unearthed elephant bones in the Jordan Valley, and the prophets wrote knowingly of stealthy bears, the light-footed roe and the wild ass that "snuffed up the wind." But centuries of overgrazing and overcultivation depleted the land. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, virtually all of Israel's trees were felled to provide fuel for Turkish...