Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution's case was clear enough. The mess sergeant testified that Pfc. God, knife in hand, had removed the eyes in thick wedges, sliced off random peels in flat slabs (instead of removing them nice and thin). Then the mess sergeant, armed with a potato and peeler, earnestly re-enacted the whole business, slashing ruthlessly away until the potato looked like a candidate for a shoestring...
...House, 251-54, passed a bill to create an independent, three-man federal commission to think up ways of helping the ailing, coal industry. Complained Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "No matter how thick or thin you slice it, this creates a new agency when we already are surfeited with them...
...Isly would have brought the paratroopers out in force, perhaps led to dozens of arrests, or might have set European mobs to rioting against Moslems in reprisal for terrorist outrages. But last month, an hour after the grenade blast, the crowds on the Rue d'Isly were as thick as ever; most Europeans looked upon the wreckage and passed by, as if it had simply been a ghastly accident. And this changed attitude is not all on the European side. A month before, a terrorist was spotted before he could explode a bomb in a crowded square; he fled...
...scholarly editor of Riyadh's weekly newspaper Al Yamamah (The Dove), who had been casually tossed into jail, in the old way, by King Saud. Feisal heatedly protested that such arbitrary actions infringed on his new powers as Interior Minister. The King stared at him through his thick glasses, lumpily stood his ground. Feisal turned in his resignation...
...Argentina, intent on curing its economic ills, needs to cut beef consumption and restore it to its historic role as a foreign-exchange earner. One day Amalia Ferrer, wife of an insurance-company employee, said to her butcher: "Carlos, two kilos of beefsteak." Carlos cut the thick slices, said: "Seventysix pesos [the equivalent of 19? a pound]." Señora Ferrer protested: "But Don Carlos, only last Friday I paid 60." Sighed the butcher: "That was Friday. Today this is the price; soon it will be more." The housewife settled for stew beef...