Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embedded in a hillside, and the only straight lines in it are the floors. The roof on one level is made of grey, knobby lead, on another level it is covered by two feet of earth and undulating lawn. Doors and windows are odd-shaped holes in the thick, earth-colored walls...
...child because the disease is usually fatal before adulthood, has an inherited enzyme defect that damages the oxygen-exchange cells in his lungs and reduces the elasticity of the lung walls. He does not breathe enough air in, nor let enough out. His windpipe and lungs become clogged with thick viscid mucus. The trick is to loosen and thin this mucus...
...that knows no politics. From both sides of the Iron Curtain, volunteers enlist in the fight against a common enemy: permafrost, the iron-hard layer of dirt and rock bonded together by year-round ice. Permafrost underlies 20% of the earth's land area. It is 150 ft. thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves up 5-ft. hummocks in airport runways. Thawed, it only gets worse. Heated buildings tilt on their softened foundations...
...Kuhtarev said that the "capitalist newspaper New York Times is not available in Russia, and will be sold there only when it begins to report objectively about our system." When asked if he believes in freedom of the press, Kuhtarev noted that the New York Times is a very thick newspaper and "would require special airplanes to bring it to us." After a member of the audience suggested the international edition of the Times, printed on ten pages of thin paper, the Russian said he could not answer this question...
...excerpts from her diary; Lewis' letters are relatively short and humorously impersonal. Some of Dorothy's entries are almost embarrassingly intimate, such as the entry for Sept. 21, 1927, eight months before they were married. "A dreadful night . . . At 8:30 he phoned. His voice was thick. 'I'm shot . . . come here, darling.'" She found Lewis passed out on his bed. "I cried terribly. Something in me collapsed." She bathed his face. He woke, and "lifted me into his bed, clasped his arms around me, and went fast to sleep again on my breast...