Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Bills Observatory sees no let-up in the stage. The thick, hard cover is not likely to be easily disposed of," it announced in its report last night...
...singular track. Innocent children were her favorite fare, but once a girl child, who might have been her dinner, foiled her with bread. Fleeing from Baba-Yaga, this miraculous child strewed the forest with crumbs, each of which sprouted a tree, and the trees grew so tall and thick and fast in Baba-Yaga's path that the child outran the old witch's seven-league mortar to safety...
...innumerable adjectives while omitting all the verbs; it substitutes atmosphere for action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing in a lot of stray incident, but it virtually squeezes out Raskolnikov. Thick with debris that chokes the main story, full of garish gloom that feasts the eye but starves the emotions, Crime and Punishment winds up a bore...
...just catching cold. The solution was sprayed into the noses of volunteers (inmates of the District of Columbia's Lorton Reformatory, who were paid $3 a week). They caught cold, too. Washings were then transplanted into chick embryos; solutions from the eggs produced the same thick "sinusitis-like" colds in other volunteers. All told, 57 of 60 human guinea pigs came down with colds...
Then came Wolfe's difficulties. As his thick flood of words rolled into his publishers' offices, there to be diked and channeled, it became clear that Wolfe would never develop any controlling ideas that could give esthetic unity or moral significance to his work...