Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blood is thicker than politics," lifelong Republican Elmo Mennen Williams once said by way of explaining her unwavering support of her Democratic son, former Michigan Governor and current Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. And when the will of the Mennen toiletries heiress was probated after her death at 80 of a heart attack, it turned out that blood was thicker than charity, too. Noting that she had made frequent charitable contributions in her lifetime, she left the bulk of her $1,000,000 estate to her three sons and nine grandchildren. All real...
Only at rare intervals, though, did Explorer XVI collide with anything bigger than a microscopic bit of cosmic dust. There were 44 meteoroids that succeeded in penetrating a sheet of beryllium-copper one-thousandth of an inch thick, which is slightly thicker than household aluminum foil. The most powerful meteoroid encountered knocked a tiny hole in stainless steel three-thousandths of an inch thick. Metal as thick as the wall of a beer can went unpunctured. NASA's tentative conclusion is that the plentiful meteoroids are too small to do harm, and the dangerous ones...
Fortunately, caribou are still plentiful near Anaktuvuk Pass, and no one is going hungry. But contemporary civilization is closing in with deadly effect. Radioactive fallout from Russian and U.S. nuclear tests has dangerously poisoned the Nunamiuts' barren homeland. Fallout there has been no thicker than in many other parts of the world, but it has concentrated ominously in the bodies of the Eskimos. A report made for the Atomic Energy Commission by General Electric scientists showed that in the summer of 1962, the inhabitants of Anaktuvuk Pass had an average "whole body burden" of 421 nanocuries*of caesium...
...populated parts of Canada and Maine, amateur observers will swarm to greet it. The path of totality will cut through Maine in a 60-mile swath where a deep twilight will fall. As seen from Boston, the sun will be 94.4% covered. In New York the crescent will look thicker: 88.7% covered; in St. Louis, 67.1%. In Los Angeles the sun will be dented (26.4% ); in Mexico City barely nicked...
Tops on Fifth. Though Howard Johnson's has a thicker cut of the national restaurant business, Stouffer's boasts some superlatives of its own. In Manhattan, Stouffer's Fifth Avenue, which includes the skyscraping Top of the Six's, is the nation's largest restaurant operation, grossing $5,000,000 annually. At the Equitable Life Assurance headquarters, Stouffer's serves 6,000 lunches daily, a record for employee feeding. It also runs restaurants at the new Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and at Disneyland...