Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sewer," the river is so toxic that even hardy eels have difficulty surviving. The Dutch, who live at the river's mouth, have a stoic slogan: "Holland is the rubbish bin of the world." In Sweden, when black snow fell on the province of Sma-land, authorities suspected that thick soot had wafted from across...
...gleaming red Volvo, to the blaring stereo cartridge/AM-FM radio system on the dashboard, up and down my reclining body, and, just for a split second, back at my face. Then he stepped away from the window to pull the gas nozzle out of the tank, leaving a thick streak on the area he was cleaning...
...Harvard individual runners, three leapers, and three relay teams will charge out of exam period and into the thick of competition next Saturday at the Boston Garden when they compete against some of the nation's best runners and field men in the Boston Athletic Association's invitational...
...when the Sling slung-out at the wildly braying Masses, the added Impetus lent by the powerful Mammon sped the Tome through the Air with such incredible Speed: seventy-five pages ripped from the Binding. Sing! How, as when Tornado Winds, ripping and howling, some fragile Straw some thick wood Plank drive through: So drove these seventy-five Pages, like the Edges of as many Blades: So were seventy-four Flarbs decapitated. Unfortunately, the seventy-fifth Page decapitated the Mentor. But lo! Half-a-head sprang-up to replace the one that fell...
Hickel's bad news came from California's Santa Barbara Channel, the scene of last January's big oil leak. Once again, a thick black tide from the same Union Oil Co. well oozed offshore over a 20-mile area, fouling beaches and harming marine creatures. Company officials and the U.S. Geological Survey maintain that the new leak was caused by a buildup of pressure in the oil dome. The solution to the problem seems to be to keep pumping oil so that the pressure does not reach the rupture point. But even normal operation...