Word: thickest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ribo "still sleeps in his dark, damp haven, curled in on himself like a foetus. He is as yet immune to those feelings which make a man shiver and inspire him to go forth into the outer light ... He flees from the light at once, hiding himself in the thickest part of the forest...
Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures from an Exhibition (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Columbia). Big star of this one is neither Composer Mussorgsky nor Orchestrator Ravel but Conductor Ormandy and his incredibly polished crew; even the thickest Muscovite treacle is bearable when cut by these magnificent winds and brasses...
...Allen Welsh Dulles, 60, whose older brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, must, along with the President and the defense chiefs, construct policy toward the enemy out of the information brought in by Allen's Central Intelligence Agency. Because the Communist tyranny is conducted behind the thickest cloak of secrecy and deceit the modern world has ever known, a high proportion of the information about this enemy is of the hard-to-get variety. Because modern weapons threaten whole nations, a U.S. chief of intelligence must bear the kind of responsibility that Winston Churchill in World...
...former Prime Minister can indulge himself by wondering out loud whether McCarthy or Eisenhower is the more powerful. The anti-American New Statesman & Nation finds in McCarthyism the thickest stick it ever brandished. Hardly anyone in Britain laughs when the New Statesman says: "The Hitler-McCarthy analogy is disturbingly apt." It goes on with a typical distortion of McCarthy's power, finding him in alliance with "powerful interests in contemporary America," including "a substantial part of American Roman Catholicism" and "many American industrialists." The New Statesman smugly concludes: "It is anti-Communism that binds these social forces together...
Sweden is building the world's longest underwater power transmission system. The cable itself, which has already been laid, runs 60 miles from the Swedish mainland to Visby on the Island of Gotland, and is nearly three inches in diameter at its thickest point. Its solid copper conductor, about ⅓ in. thick, will carry direct current at 100,000 volts. The return current flows back through the sea. The electrodes that start it on its water journey are screened to save the fish...