Word: thickest
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With so many warm human issues at stake, the attacking Apaches tend to come across as more or less unfortunate bystanders. Even when bullets and arrows fly thickest, many just mill around in the background on horseback, as though someone had told them not to do anything-other than occasionally torturing white men-that might discredit their people. If anything, Diablo proves that it can be extremely difficult to promote racial harmony while playing cowboys-and-Indians...
...back to the grass roots. Braking the car, he leaped out, plucked handfuls of Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylori) from a field and nuzzled the blades as if they were orchids. "Look at that," the President cried jubilantly to reporters. "Isn't that the thickest grass you've ever seen?" Of course. Lyndon planted...
...Faculty debate notwithstanding. In contrast to the stultifying and unproductive dialogue to which the community has been subjected during the past year, he hoped to present nothing less than a discussion of the quality, meaning, purposes, and future of liberal education--surely a topic worthy of the thickest and most scholarly of quarterlies. But, although the Review managed to snare some big names, they have written articles which are too often slight, too seldom provocative. The Harvard Review hasn't the prestige to command original, first-rate pieces from the first-rate minds which are necessary to deal with...
...galaxies. Not quite satisfied with either theory, Professor William H. McCrea of the University of London's Royal Holloway College now offers an improvement on continual creation. In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, McCrea argues that matter is created in the places where matter is thickest, the dense centers of galaxies...
...Once the reader overcomes the resentful suspicion that the fractured-telegram style of interior monologue must take less time to write than to read, he will find Smith the most lushly loony character of the year. Donleavy simply cannot help being comic even when the symbols and portents crowd thickest. The narrative interest-such as it is-centers on Smith's love for Miss Tomson, a genuinely imagined dream figure of sexual grace who will never become a member of the wedding. She dies, of course, and is buried at sea. Darkly Byronic to the last, Smith glowers...