Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attaching it to the power supply of an underground municipal parking lot. Now, with light and power assured, they began tunneling to their goal. The fastidious crooks professionally shored their tunnel with metal stanchions and wooden beams set in concrete. They also installed electric lights, a portable fan and thick industrial carpeting; evidently they did not want to track dirt into the vault...
After breaking through a 4½-ft.-thick wall into the strong room, the thieves used their jacks to move a five-ton safe that stood in their way. Then, with their six torches, they attacked the strongroom safes. Among the spoils they found were the entire weekend receipts from Nice's biggest department stores and the bank's ready cash for the following week. In the safe deposit boxes they discovered the items that might be expected on the French Riviera: gold, silver, jewelry, bonds, rare stamps and paintings. At least one box contained a portfolio...
...matinee audience for Bus Stop at the Lakewood, Me., summer theater consisted mostly of thick-thighed teenagers with braces on their teeth. For the first 20 minutes of the play they sat clutching each other, ecstatic with anticipation. Then the star of the show loped onstage, wearing skintight jeans and a white sombrero. "My name is Bo Decker and I'm 21 years old," he cried. "Everywhere I go I got all the women." The audience squealed...
...like the driver ants of Africa and the army ants of South America conduct military campaigns with a precision that any general would envy, advancing in columns protected by soldiers over routes carefully scouted by advance parties. Ants are also accomplished architects; African termites, for example, build mounds with thick walls that keep the air inside at a constant temperature all year round. Some species of ants apparently share the human characteristic of using tools. Joan and Gary Fellers of the University of Maryland reported recently in Science that four species of ants seem to use pieces of leaf...
...fund may be in for some real trouble, too. Since late last year, a joint task force of the Departments of Labor and Justice has been poring manfully through a stack of documents hundreds of feet thick to unravel the story of the fund's operations. The Labor Department conceivably could order removal of some or all of the fund's 16 trustees -eight union men, eight representatives of management-if it finds investments that were imprudent or entailed conflicts of the trustees' interests. The Justice Department could start criminal prosecutions for fraud...