Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick Mediterranean darkness the refugee ship Lojita, renamed by its passengers the Jewish Assembly, heaved in the lashing seas. In its stinking coffinlike holds, along the rusted decks and companionways, deep in the engine rooms and even in the ancient, rotting lifeboats high in the davits, 3,854 refugees, 591 of them children, struggled for life. In a small armada of launches, caïques, fishing smacks and rowing boats, they had left tiny coves in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, to be picked up by the ship...
Italian critics insist, however, that despite Allied disclaimers the masterpiece was badly damaged by exposure to humidity after the bombing. They say also that the wall is thick with mold from the rotting of the damp sandbags...
...rods was automatic, controlled by a motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
...most brilliant, buoyant, vocal music. But in the huge Metropolitan, the slight comedy was as close to lost as a puppet show in Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel was a lightweight musical comedy to be treated no more grandly than Broadway...
...conventional beauty, but her face is founded on beautifully modeled, well-spaced bones. It will be a pity if Hollywood's make-up experts are tempted to tamper with her thick, dark eyebrows and wide, expressive mouth. Her legs are all right as they...