Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair was skimpier, the waist thicker, but Comic Bob Hope, onstage at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in the Broadway role he created 25 years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball...
...outdistanced services, which Galbraith seems to think are the responsibility of government. Thus there are plenty of vacuum cleaners but few street cleaners, a plethora of automobiles but no place to park. "The more goods people procure, the more trash must be carried away . . . the greater the wealth the thicker the dirt...
...carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time as seen through an astigmatism-correcting lens. Where the cardinal had appeared elongated and distorted, he now appeared normal; where the cardinal had leaned forward almost falling off his chair...
...Thicker than Salve. In Miami, the gloom was thicker than the anti-sunburn salve of good years. With many a smaller hotel discreetly advertising steam heat, the bigger hotels plugged morning movies and bridge tournaments for guests unable to stay outside, reported business off 20% to 30%. But some hotelmen quickly slashed rates, even offered free airline transportation for wives. Miami hoped there might still be a long late season, if the weather should moderate. But last week the new 30-day long-range weather forecast predicted subnormal temperatures through mid-March...
...lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound of the straining ontological tensions: the grunts and heaves of Destiny striving with Freedom, of Dynamics with Form, of Essence...