Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When American helicopter crewmen in South Viet Nam begin a mission over Communist territory, they never fail to take foot-square chunks of thick steel plate. As seat pads, the pieces of steel are not much comfort. But as protection from Red bullets, they often mean the difference between life and intestine-ripping death. "Pucker up, and pray," is the cry over the intercoms as the brave men who fly the choppers into the Mekong Delta head off toward the land of vertical gunfire...
...indeed, for a man whose skin is both white and thick, the land of apartheid can, in a sense, be a land of unlimited opportunity. Despite Afro-Asian efforts to cut off its trade, gold-and-diamond-rich South Africa is bursting with prosperity, and jobs abound. Recently a Johannesburg auto firm conducted a monthlong, nationwide advertising campaign for mechanics, did not get a single reply...
When the former WAVE appeared at the Veterans Administration Center in Los Angeles, she weighed 315 Ibs., spread thick over a 5-ft. 6-in. frame. Dr. Ernst Drenick was delighted to see her. For years he had been studying the metabolic mysteries of obesity, and had rounded up ten of California's fattest male veterans-one a balloon-shaped 550 Ibs.-as volunteers. The WAVE would help them discover what difference sex might make in a grueling experiment to find out the value and effects of total starvation as a means of reducing...
...Former Vice President Richard Nixon, celebrating his 51st birthday, said of his political role: "I'm staying not on the sidelines but in the thick of the battle." His main concern, he said, was to see that the G.O.P. gets the "strongest possible candidate," and to that end he was "prepared to make any sacrifice"-which most observers took to mean that he would give up his law practice and run. Meanwhile, the Gallup poll showed him leading all others as of now. >Before Washington's National Press Club, Michigan's Governor George Romney was asked...
...preoccupation on Bear Island, and here young Bucky reveled in the lore and learning, puttering and fixing and improvising of the nautical world. Winters he went to prep school as a day pupil at Milton Academy in Massachusetts, an oddball, lonely child whose hazel eyes swam grotesquely behind the thick-lensed glasses he wore to correct the extreme farsightedness he was born with. Bucky was small but sturdy, and he was aggressive enough to achieve the position of quarterback on the football team, though he could never see the ball until it was on top of him, and was haunted...