Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIFTEEN YEARS ago a venerated, thick-jowled and white-haired English Man of Letters and Amateur Scientist named Sir Charles P. Snow delivered a famous lecture at Cambridge University. The title of the lecture was The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Sir Charles's message was that English and, in fact, all of Western society no longer possesses a "common culture." We are divided into scientists and nonscientists, and between us we no longer speak the same language. Since science dominates our lives and prospects, he pontificated, the scientific ignorance of politicians, businessmen, and everyone else except scientists themselves...
Bernheimer smiles nervously with long triangular teeth stained at the top, and speaks through them with a thick, breathy German accent. When asked how he authenticates such a wide variety of objects, he quickly retorts, "How does a doctor know his patient is sick...
Black Binders. The sober spirit of the hearings was embodied in two thick black binders placed on each of the 38 committee members' desks. One was an annotated index of the documentary or taped evidence accumulated by the committee staff in the six months that it has probed 41 allegations of wrongdoing-including obstruction of justice and complicity in the Watergate cover-up?by Nixon. The other binder held the material that Majority Counsel John Dear's staff presented to the committee during its first three-hour session. It amounted to a recitation of the events that...
...blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then acting FBI chief, as a "thick-necked mick." According to CBS, Nixon used the word "Jewboy" in referring to Daniel Ellsberg. The White House denies that Nixon used any of those terms...
...business suit, Gothard lectures with few gestures, fewer jokes, no vocal theatrics and as props, only an easel for sketching and an overhead projector that flashes charts and lists of "Basic Steps" or "Root Problems" on a screen. Yet his hearers sit in rapt attention, jotting in thick red notebooks. Half of the listeners are in their teens or 20s, half are older couples, mostly white Protestant and middle class, eager for packaged help on the woes that afflict modern American families. Thousands are so enthusiastic that they take the course a second time...