Word: thicker
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...Eckhardt was "thick as a plank" for trying to refute Homo floresiensis, Eckhardt attended a scientific meeting where he took off his shirt and had his wife measure his chest. "We were able to establish to the satisfaction of the audience of 300 people that I was in fact thicker than two short planks," he says. (See pictures of London's buried bones...
...consumer prices artificially high by protecting American companies from foreign competition. The tariff had been created decades earlier to raise revenue (income tax being a thing of the future) and to nurture a stripling American manufacturing establishment. As the manufacturers prospered, they convinced their captives in Congress that ever thicker blankets of protection were needed to preserve American jobs. Wilson, calling the tariff "stiff and stupid," promised an immediate revision. Roosevelt, arguing that a speedy change would disrupt the economy, proposed a permanent nonpartisan commission of experts able to make impartial recommendations for more gradual reform...
...EasyShare V610 looks, at a glance, like other compact point-and-shoot cameras. Only a bit larger than an iPod and hardly thicker than a deck of cards, it has a spacious 2.8-in. LCD screen. However, as you power it up, the front cover slides open and you realize something strange is going on: the V610 has two lenses...
...Snow was speechwriting director and deputy director of media affairs under President George H.W. Bush. After being diagnosed with cancer last year, Snow underwent chemotherapy and returned to work at Fox, a few pounds lighter. Co-workers marveled that his bushy hair grew back even thicker...
...poor. Today, however, they've been proudly adopted as a Cajun delicacy. Visitors to the festival in the city of Breaux Bridge will have a chance to sample a slew of popular Southern dishes-from boiled crawfish to crawfish étouffée (a stew similar to gumbo but thicker). Other festival highlights include a crawfish eating contest, cooking demonstrations, Cajun dancing and the hotly contested crawfish races. Start pinching those tails...