Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brush. Terrain over which the Truman Administration hunted them was thick with underbrush. Clausen's Case Co. has had plenty of labor strife. The nub of the present trouble is a letter written by union leaders in 1937 which recognized: 1) the right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...
Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could withstand the sub-zero winters and swirling blizzards of the western provinces. In a storm, cattle huddled with their hindquarters facing the wind, and often smothered in the thick snow. When recumbent cows and steers tried to get up, they instinctively tried to raise their hindquarters first. Often they fell on their faces, starved to death...
...sweet little face with the upper lip lifted away from the lower in a kind of child-like perplexity, and all sorts of soft thick yellow hair tumbling down. She was all small and white, with the hands of a baby, and little baby legs and feet. But what she had that broke my heart were big staring blue eyes-the amazed eyes of a scared little girl in a crazy and ferocious world...
After things fell thick and fast--as the Alumni Bulletin remarked. "If you want publicity, come to Harvard." The CRIMSON replaced its wartime replacement on schedule and proceeded to the fray with assorted attacks on the 'Poon's sanctity, stuffed Ibis, ball-playing ability, and honesty--most of which seeped into outer regions through the press and radio...
...Over at the streetcar queue police fired into the air, driving commuters into a panic. Police got excited and clubbed Commies and non-Commies alike. Ambulances were almost as thick as taxicabs. Right in the middle of all this I ran into an American named Weeks who had just arrived. 'My,' said Mr. Weeks, 'Rio is an exciting place...