Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Crimson touchdowns came on thick, one-play breaks. The first came after Ravenel limped off the field, as Jerry Bartolet, sophomore quarterback, began a creditable performance despite weak protection. Bartolet sent Hobie Armstrong through right tackle on the first play without Ravenel. The sophomore halfback evaded several tacklers on his way down the right sidelines and tragged two defenders across the goal line with...
Most of New York went about its business with only a passing interest in the extra-thick traffic jams, but the fringes were crackling with antagonistic citizens and fanatic European émigrés who unfurled their banners and epithets with grim satisfaction whenever they got the chance. To keep these and the other hordes at safe distance, billy-twirling cops patrolled the approaches to the U.N., the streets and buildings where the guests made their headquarters, the avenues they traveled. Busloads of reserve police stationed themselves at strategic points and waited for alarms. Mounted cops assembled to ward...
Hardened Berliners took the new rule calmly enough: they had known worse harassment before. Mainly affected would be West Germans visiting relatives in Communist East Berlin, and so far the passes were easy to get. The nagging question in everyone's mind was how thick the next slice of salami would...
...shirts and ice-cream stands-but they would have been gratified at the turnout of their spiritual descendants in the little village of Mas Soubeyran in southern France last week. About 15,000 French Protestants crowded the narrow roads with their cars and buses on a pilgrimage to the thick-walled, stone peasant cottage and the tiny museum next to it, which are crammed with relics of one of the most bitter religious wars Europe has known. They were marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Cevennes region, which saw so much...
...midget gas turbine engine for cars. Developed by the Williams Research Corp., the engine weighs only 50 Ibs., is a mere 10 in. thick and 19 in. long, yet produces 75 h.p. It will be field tested in Jeeps next month by the Army...