Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring, big Holstein-Friesian bulls stomped and snorted while cows lowed mournfully in the stalls. Quito was having a cattle show and Ecuador's best of breed were on display. In the thick of the herd, a curly-haired farmer named Galo Plaza Lasso was qualifying entries, arguing with the judges, describing the show over a microphone. He had organized the exposition, and at the moment it interested him more than the fact that three days earlier he had been on top in Ecuador's presidential election...
...Shells and bullets began to hiss and whine once more; but in his Gettysburg garden Sallie Broadhead's husband doggedly "picked a mess of beans . . . [and] persevered until he had picked all, for he declared the Rebels should not have one." Soon, the smoke of battle grew so thick that gawking young
...when King Louis the Young reigned in France and Henry the Open-handed held Champagne," Alis of Puiseaux, a 14-year-old who knew "all the things a girl of noble blood must know," was married off. Her groom was musclebound, thick-skulled, 16-year-old Ansiau of Linnieres. In the smoky manor of Linnieres, the two families gorged themselves on staggering quantities of meat and wine...
...Bath, Jr. '50 won the penultimate race in the 155-pound class. The Junior Singles event was run off in a thick fog, and reliable reports of the winner have yet to filter up from the river bank...
...weeks, the 202 German masterpieces in Washington's National Gallery had drawn almost a million visitors. Crowds were so thick that few got a good look at the paintings. U.S. Army officials had planned, and promised, to ship the whole show back to Germany as soon as it closed. General Lucius Clay insisted their prompt return would be proof that one conqueror was not a looter. Several Congressmen were equally insistent that more Americans should be allowed to see the paintings. Last week the Army worked out a Solomonic compromise...