Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policy Planner. A quick, diffident man with a thick thatch of greying black hair and a scrubby mustache, Armstrong is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, a grandnephew of the Hamilton Fish who was President Grant's Secretary of State, and a second cousin of Isolationist Ham Fish. He was 29 and foreign correspondent for the New York Evening Post when the Council on Foreign Relations* started Foreign Affairs and made him its managing editor. Six years later Armstrong became editor. With the help of one editorial associate and a secretary, Armstrong puts out the magazine in the Council...
...lived between the heights of cathedrals and citadels. But history sums up Moscow's 800 years not by telling of the peoples anonymous pageant, but by chronicling the rise of their rulers. The pageant started with a hermit called Bukal who lived in the midst of a thick morass by the banks of the Moskva River, where the Kremlin stands today...
Keeping its secrets close to its chest, the A.E.G. hardly mentioned the practical possibilities. The fast reactor must be surrounded, like its predecessors, by a thick shield to protect the neighborhood from destructive radiation. This limits its use. But the comparatively small size is an obvious advantage. The new pile, further developed and allowed to run faster and hotter, may be the furnace of tomorrow's atomic power plant...
...outlaw Big Harpe, who terrorized the Ohio Valley about 1800, had "coarse hair of a fiery redness." William Clarke Quantrill, the murderous Civil War guerrilla, was a redhead. So was Wild Bill Hickock, and Jack McCall who killed him. The records, Dr. von Hentig says, are thick with "Big Reds," "Reddys," and "Red Mikes...
...Even the physical characteristics of his face, his Peruvian or Malayan skin, his large black eyes narrowed by intense concentration and as if drinking in the light, his thick and shiny hair, his stubborn forehead, his tightly shut lips conveying an expression of cruelty ... in fact, his whole being suggested that he was of exotic birth. More than once as I looked at him, I thought of ... Montezuma whose practiced hand could in a single day sacrifice three thousand human creatures on the pyramid-like Altar...