Word: thicker
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...When my eyes became accustomed to the darkness, I saw vaguely that there was a wooden board on the dusty floor and a cement toilet in the corner. The room was no more than about five feet square. The handcuffs felt different. They were much heavier and thicker, with a square edge, not rounded like the others I had worn. My hands felt hot, and my fingers were stiff. I did not know how long I sat there. In a dark room, in complete isolation, time assumed a different meaning or had no meaning at all. My legs felt stiff...
...software developer at Ascent Technology, said he was on the fifth floor when the fire alarms went off. When he and about 100 other workers tried to escape through the stairwells, they found them crowded with thick smoke, he said. “As we went down, it got thicker and thicker,” Clemens said a day after the accident. “We got to the third floor [and] couldn’t go down. It was too thick. People were breathing through things, like through my hat.” While in the third-floor elevator...
...went down, it got thicker and thicker,” Clemens said, reminiscing a day after the accident. “We got to the third floor [and] couldn’t go down. It was too thick. People were breathing through things, like through...
...close it. “It’s the most athletic team maybe in the country,” Kerr said. “They’re also very used to this surface, which is a lot different from the East Coast where the grass is thicker. This surface runs really quick.”The shutout marked the first time all season Harvard has been held scoreless, and it was the Crimson’s first loss in 10 games.“They played well, and we just couldn’t seem to create many...
While reporters like to stir the pot and focus on the catfights, they don't seem to grasp that these are two seasoned professionals working at the highest level of American government with skin so much thicker than the rest of us. As Bush noted in his press conference on the day after the election, "This isn't my first rodeo." Or as my mother has always told me, "This business comes with a free head clipping. Every time you stick your neck out, they come around...