Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown rich, fleshy, imperious and sentimental on the rewards of death. He wore the big tipper's air of assurance as he walked into the bright, mirrored, roomy barber shop and ordered a haircut; he closed his eyes contentedly as he felt the clippers on his thick neck. He was completely oblivious of two dark, sallow men who entered with their hats on, after him. Each of the pair wore the sort of dark, metal-rimmed glasses affected by highway cops. Each wore a scarf over his mouth. Each wore a black glove on his right hand, and each...
...more efficient. Next month Dallas' Love Field will open a $7,500,000 terminal building with facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city has also built a 500,000-gal. underground fuel-storage system, and concrete taxi aprons and loading ramps thick enough for heavier jetliners than any yet designed. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco also expect to be ready with long runways and big terminals. Though San Francisco's new $14 million terminal is only three years old, the city's voters have authorized another $25 million...
...cooked right on the table, on a small, single-burner hot plate made of stainless steel. The girl deposited a frying pan on the burner, dumped in several pounds of chicken fat, covered the chicken fat with a mixture of chopped herbs, and proceeded to pour on a thick, sordid potion...
...Gomulka has shown himself increasingly jumpy over press criticism, and the students found the square thick with steel-helmeted police. The police and militia did not wait for speeches or explanations. They ordered the students to disperse, then waded in with rubber truncheons swinging, viciously clubbed many students who refused to leave...
...speech became nasal and thick, like a cleft-palate victim's. Damage to the Eustachian tube and repeated infections left him almost deaf on the right side, where he had been accustomed to placing patients, so that his chair and analytic couch had to be transposed. Hardly intelligible in German, he could not surmount the added difficulties of a foreign tongue (though he had spoken English and French fluently), observed to famed Singer Yvette Guilbert: "Meine Prothese spricht nicht französisch [My prosthesis does not speak French...