Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides plastic combs and nylon stockings America also sends us many thick, colorful weeklies. The one . . . best known here is the magazine TIME. Since the Dutch press is still fighting the paper shortage and therefore cannot keep us well enough informed, many look for additional news in the columns of this attractive magazine...
Author Costain lays on the local color thick-duels, tortures, trials, Valerie rising naked from her bath, and plenty of antique dressmaking chatter. As lavish with his color, Author Shellabarger is much the subtler hand with characters and story-though in this field "subtle" is strictly a comparative term. Prince of Foxes begins in Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid...
Dimitroff spoke English with a thick accent and democracy with a ring of conviction. He read an appeal for "the creation of a democratic International Peasant Union and eventual realization of the United States of Europe." Dimitroff left no doubt where he stood in what Molotov called the "division of Europe." Ferenc Nagy, Hungary's ex-Premier and leader of its Smallholders' Party, sat beside him and nodded approval. Nagy had already symbolically established kinship with the U.S. by donning an American Indian headdress on a recent visit...
...Lady a safe 6,000 miles away, a bitter debate over her trip led two deputies to send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss of Junín. The husbands of Eva's two other sisters each hold lucrative political appointments...
...sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...