Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bootleggers transporting 96 gal. of whisky in their 1958 car were caught despite 1) a carpet tack dispenser between the rear wheels, 2) a trap door designed to dump 10 Ibs. of tacks on the road in deeper emergencies, and 3) a pressurized oil tank that produced a thick smoke screen from the exhaust...
...Skate" was a mile-square ice floe, 10 ft. thick. It drifted on the cap of the globe, beyond the Arctic Circle, whose mysteries are as dark as those faced by Columbus, Magellan, and De Soto. There, 20 Air Forcemen and scientists participating in the International Geophysical Year took over a simple camp: 20 Quonset huts, mess hall, science laboratory, 5,000-ft. runway and an electric homing beacon for supply planes. And there they resolutely logged their fresh jigsaw pieces of knowledge about water masses, current patterns, ice drift, season changes and marine life...
Wild Harvest. In the crowded souks of Arab Jerusalem, over the endless small cups of thick coffee, there were two explanations of Hussein's "vacation": that he had decided that it was hopeless to keep up the struggle and would go into exile; that he genuinely felt that order was now sufficiently restored so that he could risk absenting himself for a while. The optimists hold that Nasser is reluctant to take over Jordan because he would then be burdened by half a million Palestine refugees as well as by the economic load now borne by the U.S. They...
Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., who has locked out three times as many schoolchildren (some 13,000) as the redoubtable Faubus, laid it on thick to a state P.T.A. meeting in Richmond: "I say to you in profound and pleading reverence that I fight to preserve the public school system." He got a whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then...
...will open in New York on November 6, four days after its author's thirty-first birthday. He could still pass for an undergraduate, showing up for a drink in a herringbone tweed jacket, button-down shirt, and dark slacks: a slightly-built undergraduate with an impressively thick Southern accent. Surprisingly, the barman neglects to ask for his draft card...