Word: thicker
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...uses a heavy blue ink that has many of the same properties as rub ber cement (refills are available in black and red). About 100 times thicker than honey, it is contained in a cartridge in the pen's barrel, which is pressured with a charge of nitrogen gas; the gas forces the ink onto the pen's ballpoint when it is pressed against a surface. In effect, an antigravity pen, it can be used in any position. The writing can be rubbed out with an ordinary eraser up to several days later; thereafter the ink fully hardens...
Says Pat Corum, a three-time loser serving a double life sentence at San Quentin for murder and kidnaping: "The walls in my head were thicker than prison walls. With TM, those walls have come down." Other converts include members of the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood and Black Guerrilla Family, groups well known for making mayhem in California prisons. "It don't sound right to say I enjoy being here, but it don't bother me like it did before," says Felix Padia, a Folsom inmate who has been meditating for 17 months. Says Convicted Dope Peddler Willie...
...nexus between Bellotti, PCM and MBM appears to have been thicker all the time. Bellotti, after he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1962, created four administrative assistant positions in his office, one of which was filled by Daniel Burke, who was one of three Essex County commissioners. In turn, Burke was acquainted with William Harding, one of the PCM officials, on a social basis before the Essex County contract was awarded to PCM, which at that time had no professional employees...
...stalwart but silent E.G. Marshall, severs ties with his compulsive interior decorator-wife (Geraldine Page), breaking up a family that never seemed to be very close. Two daughters--Joey (Mary Beth Hurt), the father's favorite, and Renata (Diane Keaton), the mother's protoge--display tension and jealousy even thicker than blood, as it were. A third daughter, in turn, has drawn away from the family, retaining only casual ties that shield her from real emotional involvement. Almost every sentence between these characters is either a painful expression of guilt, or an even more trying repression of feelings the family...
...Crimson, however, is not Keller-Sarmiento's favorite soccer team, as he proves blood to be thicker than water and remains loyal to Argentina's national team. "I was really proud when they won the World Cup," he said...