Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he hadn't thought about it for years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm stopped him again ("You couldn't see the hood of the car," said the driver), and he had to turn back...
...talk, which opened the forum, and in the discussion period that followed, Mr. Goodman proved himself an ideal rallying point for antiauthoritarian sentiment. Gently chiding Blaine and Steve Jencks in his thick Bronx accent, making intimate asides to his wildly partisan audience, and speaking with alarming frankness of his own sexual license, Goodman offered himself to his sympathizers on an intensely personal level. Before the evening was over even his fatuous remarks drew enthusiastic applause; the issues at hand were rapidly obfuscated as the Liberal Union forum evolved into a triumphant flirtation between Goodman and his audience...
...Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith. Even as a petition for bypassing the Rules Committee was being prepared, the President one morning drove past the Spring Valley home of House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, took him to the White House for breakfast. The meal included what Halleck called "thick bacon-the kind he knew a fellow from Indiana would like." Halleck came away glowing about how Johnson had "shown me things I never saw there before." He also began putting the pressure on Smith for civil rights-although not precisely for the reasons that the President wanted. Explained...
Some Palestinian tells are 70 ft. thick and contain dozens of different layers of debris. Obviously little can be learned about them by looking only at their surfaces; they are the proper hunting grounds of diggers, who work back through the slow accretion of years. But in arid regions, where the tells are bare of vegetation, they erode faster, and the desert wind carries their dust away. In Jordan and southern Palestine there are tells that have worn to ground level. Only their potsherds have survived, all ages and types mingled together, their edges rounded like pebbles on a beach...
...Hurt. Chicago's "Papa Bear" is 68 now; his hair is taking a permanent leave of absence, and his spectacles are as thick as the bottoms of shot glasses. But he has not mellowed a whit. Teeth clenched, hands thrust deep into his overcoat pockets, he follows the ball up and down the field bellowing at his players, badgering officials, blatantly coaching from the sideline. Trying to lend moral assistance to a Bear field-goal attempt, he once booted a 240-lb. guard right off the bench. Another time, he curtly ordered a rookie:"Taylor...