Word: thickest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly twenty inches of snow lashed the Northeast last night leaving the area buried under one of thickest March drifts in history. In Cambridge, Harvard and Radcliffe were almost completely paralized by the total accumulation of over two feet which fell during the past three days...
...riding a handy, sure-footed grey Arab polo pony. We wheeled and began to gallop . . . Bright flags appeared as if by magic, and I saw arriving from nowhere Emirs on horseback . . . The Dervishes appeared to be ten or twelve deep at the thickest, a great grey mass gleaming with steel. They seemed to be wild with excitement, dancing about on their feet, shaking their spears up and down . . . I found myself surrounded. I fired . . . Three or four men from my troop were missing . . . Trumpets were sounded . . . Two squadrons were dismounted and in a few minutes their fire . . . compelled the Dervishes...
...Harlem, one thing that most impressed the Russians was the lavishness of U.S. newspapers and magazines. Apparently recalling the skimpy Moscow papers, Polevoy marveled that Americans in a single week can turn out "magazines as thick as mattresses." (Jolly Journalist Sofronov was introduced on one occasion as "the thickest editor of a thin magazine in Russia...
...maze of charitable trusts which owned some of Textron's property, and that through them, he had pocketed profits that should actually have gone to Textron. Little settled the suit by paying $600,000 back to Textron. A year ago, he lowered his head at the thickest stone wall of his career: he started a fight to 1) take over money-losing American Woolen Co., the largest U.S. maker of woolens and worsteds, and 2) merge it with Textron...
...with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially reported "the worst mixture of terrible road conditions we can remember." The Royal Navy dispatched its 13,000-ton aircraft carrier Glory to serve...