Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Simplifiers. Moynihan gave his audience several exhortations and some rather thick flattery: "The first is to be of good cheer and good conscience. Depressing, even frightening things are being said about the Administration. They are not true. This has been a company of honorable and able men, led by a President of singular courage and compassion in the face of a sometimes awful knowledge of the problems and the probabilities that confront...
...kindly old coach. The hero was humble, would blush when bussed by a cheerleader, and was forever uttering inspiring words like "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." For him, a big night on the town was a twin bill at the Bijou and an extra-thick malted milk. He was the All-America boy. from his crew cut and three-button blue suit right down to his sweat socks and brown loafers...
...Fezziwig's daughter. Dickens only gives us a scene in which a woman (not Miss Fezziwig) returns her engagement ring to Scrooge because he has a new passion, for Gain. Briscusse shows the whole courtship to the background of a song called "Happiness Is," or something like that. Pure, thick soup. The level of intelligence is nowhere near an old version of A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, in which the Fezziwig episode was padded much more effectively by having Scrooge ruin Fezziwig and heartlessly take over his business...
...DAVIDSON dropped out of school in California to climb mountains. He's a lanky, agile man with a thick red beard and hair the same length as his beard. His deep voice bobs pleasantly up and down as though he's always telling favorite stories to an appreciative group of children. One day when he was walking along a road in British Columbia between climbs, a stranger stopped and offered to give Art a ride to Anchorage; Art had heard of the incredible beauty of the mountains around Anchorage, so he took the ride, and when he arrived...
...month. Though Cambodia's war has become Viet Nam's in miniature, most Western officials refused to believe that terrorism would play a part in it. Then last week, with a thunderous roar, nearly 100 lbs. of plastique exploded in Phnom-Penh's U.S. embassy. Thick concrete walls were ripped open; floors and ceilings were ruptured. But the plastique went off at 6:35 a.m., 55 minutes before the first staff members arrived for work, and nobody was hurt...