Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eight hundred pages long and two inches thick, the book is an imposing object that should find many uses. It could serve, for instance, as a booster seat for Junior, a wheel chock for the family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance...
...More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then...
...rare properties of the anechoic chamber are achieved with foot-thick concrete walls and special sound-absorbing wedges protruding into the chamber from the ceiling, walls and floor. A metal grate is suspended in the center of the chamber from which measurements and observations can be made...
THEY HAVE built a stone wall around the ivory tower. The wall is thick. In the past, occasionally a stone would crash and crumble on the outer gates; inside, we would hear only a muffled thud. At times, a big rock was hurled, big enough to shake the walls, not big enough to topple them. We remember those times as Crises, and after they passed and the rocks lay in sandy ruin on the ground, we reinforced the walls...
...system. It can go unaccountably silent in the midst of a hot summer night or break one of those silences with a flurry of shootings cuttings and robberies. Sometimes the assignments are so sparse that three and four cars converge on the scene of anything remotely interesting; sometimes so thick that no units are available for even the most critical of runs. To the rookie out his first night the radio sounds like several New England auctioneers going at once; before long you learn the various code numbers then to sift out the cars from the dispatchers, and finally...