Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unseasonably balmy Washington air was thick with pro-aid arguments. The basic premise: cutting off foreign aid now would undermine the U.S. position in the world at a critical period. As one White House aide put it: "Without foreign aid the President will have a more difficult time convincing the Russians and the Chinese when he's negotiating with them. If there is no foreign aid in the arsenal, you don't shoot as far." The simple assumption is that foreign aid makes friends for the U.S., and thus adds to the weight that Washington can wield...
When Jahn opened his second restaurant in Stuttgart, he wanted a suitable name, redolent of Austria. From Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods, inspiration struck. Jahn traveled to the U.S. "to learn the system"-and then added a thick Germanic accent...
Penn has run all over the Ivy League, and coach Jim Tuppeny said last night "We'll be in the thick of it." Tuppeny said that the Quakers's victory in the Heps last week "restored the confidence of the team...
...last week was, needless to say, at the United Nations. But across town, NATO was conducting an even more tumultuous and unstatesmanlike session. This NATO was not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but the equally embattled National Association of Theater Owners. The gloom at the meeting was almost as thick as the cigar smoke...
...SHADOW OF MAN by Jane van Lawick-Goodall. 297 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $10. "I saw a black shape hunched up on the ground. I hunched down myself . . . in the thick undergrowth. Then I heard a soft hoo to my right. I looked up and saw a large male directly overhead. All at once he uttered a long drawn-out wraaaai . . . one of the most savage sounds of the African forest ... I forced myself to appear uninterested and busy, eating some roots from the ground. The end of the branch above me hit my head. With a stamping and slapping...