Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the anti-Europeans proved to be Angry Youngish Playwright John Osborne, 32. Looking back in anger from the south of France last year, Osborne had proclaimed his antipathies in a "letter of hate for you, my countrymen." Its message: "Damn you, England." But damn it, blood is thicker than water, and he has had a change of heart, possibly because of overexposure to what he calls "the forward-looking common supermarket jargon and high-minded greed." Said Osborne: "I, for one, am sick to death of all its ugly chromium pretense and am proud to settle for a modest...
Need to Know. As the fog of talk grew thicker the U.S. Navy announced that its ships recently had detected and followed Soviet submarines in the Caribbean and the Atlantic until they surfaced. The subs were allowed to go peacefully on their way. Although the U.S. military buildup continued, the Administration, as far as anyone on the outside knew, had put no strong pressure on the Soviet Union by insisting that U.N. inspectors be allowed into Cuba by a specified deadline-or else. To many, this tolerant attitude suggested that Kennedy may have struck some kind of understanding with Khrushchev...
...Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer...
...Swedish automakers have beaten the odds against them by concentrating, not on price, but on merchandising the quality and engineering of their cars. Both companies build their cars from sheet steel that is as much as 20% thicker than that used by U.S. automakers, and coat them with a hide of paint so tough that they need no garaging even in the Nordic winter. To dramatize this sturdiness. Volvo (Latin for "I roll") promises Swedish buyers that it will repair accident damage free during the first five years of a car's life. Saab tests its cars by subjecting...
Rarely in his career as a spy had U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers been under thicker wraps than those that enveloped him last week. Although the President described him as "a free agent," he remained in a top-secret hideout under the vigilant custody of the Federal Government. Questioning by a board headed by Federal Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, plus intensive analysis of his account by CIA agents, had convinced the Government that Powers acquitted himself well as a Russian captive. But Powers' scheduled emergence from hiding was postponed while CIA Boss John McCone, with the Prettyman report...