Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently telling Harvard what it wants to hear is not enough. While approximately 19 per cent of all applicants are accepted to Harvard, only about 10 per cent of foreign candidates (not including foreign students applying from U.S.schools) get thick envelopes...
...concentrates on the pinnacles of power and the depths of poverty and degradation, where only a rough correlation with reality is needed. In fact Hailey's portrayal of top-echelon business, his main concern in The Moneychangers, feels a little wrong throughout; the carpets are a little too thick, the talk a little too glib, the board members a little too nakedly opportunistic...
...Luis is in good shape. "I've been running, throwing every day," Tiant said in his thick Spanish accent. "My arm feels much better...
...almost believe we are ghosts...It's not only what we inherit from our parents that keeps on returning in us. It's all the old self-doubts, fears, hurts, prejudices. They aren't alive in us; but they hang on just the same...Ghosts everywhere--so many and thick, they're like grains of sand...
...bursts got Harvard back into the thick of the fight in the second stanza. Hines dashed down the court with the ball and fed a behind-the-back pass to Fine, who returned the ball to Doc in the corner. He popped from there to start the first Crimson surge, Muliufi Hanneman and Carey following with baskets that pulled Harvard within...