Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renegotiated, and that there is no point in any meeting until the Chinese first vacate their posts on Indian territory. Had he changed? Answered Nehru: "I have ventured to say that I have not changed my mind. You do not seem to realize that my mind is not so thick as to see in only one direction; it can see in two or three directions. Discussions may not be fruitful, and yet they may be advisable. Do you understand that...
...Damon Runyon called "a great document of a tall, loose-jointed fellow" is the son of a Bronx schoolteacher, grew up wearing glasses as thick as soda biscuits because of conical corneas...
...mainland, the wretched prisoners-guarded always by the thick jungle, the malarial swamps, the shark-infested waters around them-worked the plantations, cleared the forests, built the roads...
...islands the thick walls became mildewed and pocked, the plank beds began to rot, and rust spread slowly over the huge locks and chains. Last week the deserted colony was put up for public auction. It was one of a number of "chattels"-a dry canal, 15 coast guard stations, five silos, two restaurants, two sand dunes, 43 prisons-that the French government is eager to get rid of, and in this case, anxious to forget...
...Ethan, the Yankee farmer, all but invented a cubist style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever was, and her unweathered...