Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad that gasping Americans "in high places" are finally getting around to cleaning up our atmosphere. Los Angeles is getting a little thick (thus my temporary residence in Indiana). But I sometimes wonder whether or not we're mixing up our priorities a little. Whenever I see someone smoking cigarettes and at the same time complaining of air pollution, I can't help chuckling. Why don't we clean our lungs out while...
...found that daydreaming amongst objects of affection was very nice. Commercial paint-color charts were real jewel lists for me." After majoring in painting at Ohio University in Athens, he set off for New York in 1959. Happenings were what was happening, and Dine was soon in the thick of them. "Happenings were good because they got rid of a lot of ideas that could not be used in painting," he says...
...highly persuasive. For one thing, much of the rock that his expeditions gathered in the area is younger and heavier than typical land rocks, and bears other similarities to specimens found on the ocean floor. For another, the desert regions of the Afar triangle are covered with a thick layer of evap-orites, the salty debris left behind after seawater evaporates. Tazieff and his colleagues also found distinct traces of coral in the area's lava beds, plus a Stone Age ax that was actually encrusted with seashells-a sign that the relic was once covered by seas...
Just a note which would have been dropped in the University suggestion box if I could have found it. Building and Grounds spends nine months each year running around the Yard chasing after plush, green, turf-y windmills. Yet, there has yet to be a year in which thick piled grass graced Harvard Yard. Solution? Astro Turf! Not only does it require no maintenance but also it remains plus and green year round. Single dorm-crew vacuum cleaners would get rid of autumn leaves. That task now requires costly. whining behemoths. The investment, which could easily be managed with...
...refinery near Machiasport. Another company, King Resources, acquired 300 acres on Long Island in Casco Bay, where it planned to build a huge oil-receiving and storage terminal. At first glance, the projects looked like a bonanza. But few Maine residents rejoiced wholeheartedly. The state's famous thick fogs and treacherous coastal waters made oil spills from tankers a probability-and a potential disaster to Maine's fishing and tourism industries...