Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part state occasion, part tourist rubbernecking. For ten months, ever since President Ford formally extended a renewed invitation to the Emperor during his visit to Japan last year, U.S. and Japanese diplomats and security officials have worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping to the schedule. They will be trailed by a retinue of 22, headed by Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda and including the imperial household's grand steward, grand chamberlain, grand master of cerermonies and a covey of ladies in waiting...
...everything from sports jackets to undervests and worn by everyone who might come under the gun, from cops to Presidents. While even the thickest Kevlar garments will not stop most rifle bullets, the material nonetheless provides formidable protection. The 23-layer version, which is two-thirds of an inch thick, will stop up to a .44 magnum slug and would probably even protect against a point-blank blast such as Squeaky Fromme's .45 could have delivered. The seven-layer, 2½-lb. undervest-most popular with police because it scarcely impedes movement-will turn back a knife attack...
AFTER A couple more scenes--one where a thin old woman approaches a desk, peers through her thick glasses at the case worker and says in a wispy little voice, "I'm going to drop dead."--the camera finally focuses on welfare workers behind the scenes. A crewcut man with a thin tapering voice while looking at the same couple's folder, is telling a secretary, "...apparently extenuating social conditions exist." He falters and adds, "could just be a case of lousy conditions...
...name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." The real-life Albert Shanker, leader of New York City's public school employees, scarcely looks like an earthshaker. In fact, he could easily pass for what he once was: a full-time schoolteacher. He wears thick glasses and is virtually blind in one eye; his face droops in a hangdog expression, and a habitual slouch seems to shrink his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. What places Shanker in the megaton range is the power he wields...
...rerun Senate race against Democrat John A. Durkin. Ford spoke, shook hands, and waved at the large, friendly crowds at 22 political stops on a 118-mile motorcade-all the while wearing a protective vest under his shirt. It probably was a 4½-lb., ⅜-in.-thick model made of Kevlar, a synthetic material that resembles fiber-glass cloth. The White House refused to confirm or deny press reports of the vest, but it was plainly visible across Ford's back just above his shoulder blades. His shirt was stretched tautly across his chest and bunched beneath...