Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camps could never hold the millions of East Germans who would escape if they could. To deal with this restive mass, Communism's wall at Berlin grew ever higher, ever thicker. Bands of Volkspolizei (people's police) strung more strands of barbed wire atop the concrete blocks to stop the desperate dozens of East Berliners who were still leaping over the parapet to freedom; but to the dismay of officials, four Vopos on a fence-mending detail themselves threw down their tools and took the opportunity to flee west. In front of the wall, Communist workers laid heavy...
After seven games of a losing streak that knocked the National League-leading Los Angeles Dodgers back into second place, the gloom of players, fans, and sympathetic local sportswriters was slightly thicker than the city's smog. But in the Los Angeles Times, Sports Columnist James Murray could regard the home team's travail with wry humor. "What was happening to the Dodgers," wrote Murray, "could only be described as a slump if you think of what happened to General Custer as a slump. I have seen happier people on the end of a rope than the Dodgers...
...technique, but few wings have ever had as many appendages as are planned for the 727. As the swift airliner slows for landing, its thin, swept-back wings will grow like opening umbrellas. On their leading edges small "Kreuger flaps" will tilt outward, making the wing effectively thicker and giving it extra lift. Simultaneously, a strange structure will slide out of the wing's trailing edge. Segmented flaps will move backward and downward, deflecting the air stream sharply and adding still more lift. Filling the angle between wing and fuselage, the huge flaps will turn the wing into...
...Kennedy: "He published the inside story of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers' flight over Russia on the same day Powers went on trial. The story gives the details of how Powers fought to get his plane started, after stalling at 70,000 feet; how he came down to thicker air around 35,000 feet, then was attacked by a swarm of angry Russian jet fighters...
...found what he wanted, and it is exactly the sort of thing one might have expected. Although how he went about finding it is shrouded in fogs thicker than Chicago's own, it is clear at least that the platform is his, not Goldwater's, or Eisenhower's, or even Rockefeller's. The reason for this also is obvious enough: Nixon is neither a Goldwater nor a Rockefeller, and he has had to step adroitly to keep out of trouble with both wings of his party...