Word: thickness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...important part of Soviet foreign policy these days floats to the outside world on a thick black tide of oozing oil. Russian oil salesmen with barter deals in their briefcases stride the sidewalks of Beirut, Colombo and Tokyo. Earnest technicians from Moscow probe the earth in India, Ghana, Cuba and Pakistan to help the locals find petroleum of their own. Fat tankers chug out of the Black Sea toward a score of nations already signed up at bargain-basement prices for Commilube, the fuel of friendship...
...Army should surprise here. Jed Fitzgerald of Harvard, who should be in the thick of it, probably...
Died. Russell S. ("Rusty") Callow, 70, dean of U.S. rowing coaches, who began his remarkable coaching career at the University of Washington, later quit after 23 years as coach at the University of Pennsylvania because the Schuylkill River "was too thick to drink and too thin to plow,'' won his greatest triumph as coach of U.S. Naval Academy sophomores who won the Olympic rowing championship in 1952; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...disorderly Stanleyville, a city of about 130,000, the Congolese soldiers are so unpredictable in their loyalty that Gizenga has three times asked for U.N. protection from his own army. Jungle mold grows thick on factory walls, and unemployment is almost total. The troops and officials have drunk up the stocks of imported cognac at the best hotels and are now reduced to palm beer. Gasoline and munitions are in short supply...
...than a farmer's field, has 16 building levels, one on top of another. Digging down to the sixth level of rubble. Mellaart, who has roamed the Anatolian Plateau off and on for a decade, found the remains of brick houses with windows, double doors, walls three feet thick and carefully constructed staircases leading to a second story. The discovery of grinding platforms and storage bins for wheat, barley, peas and lentils convinced Mellaart that the Late Neolithic inhabitants of Hacilar were successful farmers who probably had domesticated cattle...