Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repressive rule of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. As they marched, they chanted slogans denouncing the "regime's encroachments on the people's fundamental liberties." Suddenly, sacks of fine earth were flung into the air by bands of marauding "phalangists," street toughs who break up antigovernment demonstrations. As the thick dust enveloped the crowd, the phalangists attacked with knives, clubs, iron bars, cleavers, chains and knuckle-dusters. In the confusion and panic some 200 people were injured. The demonstration, intended to be peaceful, had been called by the National Democratic Front, an alliance of liberal-democratic parties opposed...
...semi-industrial town of 75,000, known as "the Paris of Saurashtra" because of its many green parks and broad avenues. Mud houses were entirely swept away, brick and concrete buildings were smashed, and just about everything else was buried under a layer of ooze almost 4 ft. thick. Rescue workers found bloated bodies half buried in the sediment and hanging from fences and tree branches. By week's end, some 1,100 corpses had been counted, and it seemed probable that the final toll would go even higher, not counting those killed in the 30-odd small villages...
Mexican beaches were the first to be hit. They were spotted last week with giant puddles of crude oil and thick clusters of tar balls. The Mexican government mounted an emergency airlift to carry newly hatched Atlantic ridley turtles, an endangered species of giant sea turtle, from the polluted beaches...
...from passing tankers. Bathers have got used to oil-stained feet. Thus few cancellations were reported at hotels. Padre Island, a thin barrier reef that stretches approximately 130 miles north from its highly developed southern tip, was slightly harder hit. But the oil was still no worse than a thick line of tar at the water's edge...
Harold, for instance, always turned up in the thick of things whenever trouble began. Aware of this distressing tendency, his buddies prodded him to stop meandering around "like a butterfly...