Word: thickest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should have a hysterectomy or have her ovarian tubes tied off after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the womb. This is the thickest, most muscular part, and is also closest to other vital organs that may be damaged in the operation...
Lemon Shape. The sphere itself must be machined with incredible accuracy: no more than five millionths of an inch of error can be tolerated. When it is not spinning, the sphere is not exactly spherical; it is slightly prolate (lemon-shaped), with its equatorial radius (where the metal is thickest) .000226 in. shorter than the polar radius. When it is spinning at 30,000 r.p.m., though, centrifugal force makes the equator bulge just enough to form a perfect sphere...
...week more than usual, and we are pleased that thousands have become regular subscribers as a result. We sell more ads too: the Feb. 15 issue of the Metropolitan regional edition of TIME, which goes to 300,000 subscribers in the New York area, was the thickest issue in TIME's history. But though grateful for windfalls, we regret the shutdown of the papers and take no pleasure in newsmen out of jobs, readers without primary sources of information that neither radio nor television nor news magazines can supply, and businesses suffering from being unable to reach their customers...
Masthead moonshine flows thickest through the nation's weeklies, from Missouri's Unterrified Democrat (EVERYBODY READS THE U.D.) to Maine's Millinocket Journal, which tailors the New York Times's famed 65-year-old slogan (ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT) to ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT. In another Maine weekly, the Kennebunk Star, the mysterious initials THWTB sprouted recently on Page One. Halfheartedly, Publisher Alexander Brook explained that they stand for THE HARD WAY'S THE BEST. In fact, they represent the classic cry of exasperated newsmen everywhere...
...particles, said Whipple. are extremely small, averaging 300 billion to the ounce. They are thickest 80 miles up. Farther out in space the dust cloud thins quickly; it almost disappears at the distance of a few earth diameters (8,000 miles...