Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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USED TO BE, life at the movies was faster, meatier, and larger than what we saw every day. The women were hotter, and their men were cooler. Enemies sought an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but friendship was thicker than blood. As Pauline Kael put it, it was "kiss kiss, bang bang...
They are supported by miners still on the job in a customary display of solidarity. "We're not forsaking our fathers." Says Jerold Hamrick, 35: "Blood is thicker than a contract and thicker than coal." Adds another young miner: "The way we treat these old miners is going to have a lot to do with how we get treated when we're old. We're all brothers...
...blood vessels are so thin-no thicker than an ordinary pencil lead -that the surgeon must peer through a microscope while joining them together.) Then, when the cerebral artery branch is undamped, additional blood spurts into the brain. Finally, the surgeon closes the hole by restoring the skin flap; usually the excised piece of bone is discarded, but patients rarely suffer any discomfort from the soft spot...
Rhodesia's Defense Minister Roger Hawkins justified the attacks on the ground that "terrorist incursions from Mozambique were increasing; it was essential to take action in self-defense." The guerrillas have traditionally infiltrated across the border to launch offensives during the December-January wet season, when thicker vegetation provides added cover. Some 3,000 guerrillas were thought to be preparing to move into Rhodesia from the camps...
...especially to women. As a manager, he leaves operating details to underlings and sticks close to - financial matters, stacking trust records in cardboard boxes in his office. He lives frugally, owns only four suits, and long ago he bought up a batch of cheap dime-store spectacles with progressively thicker lenses that he keeps in his office safe. After each working day, Ball holds court at his apartment, downing ginger ale and bourbon and spinning yarns for his cronies. It is a life that suits him, and until he "crosses the creek," he intends to go on with...