Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking with a thick Swedish accent, Myrdal said that Asian attitudes and institutions are the biggest drawbacks to progress. Asian states are "soft," he said, "in that they demand so little of their citizens." He added that "the laws are full of loopholes that the vested interests can exploit and so corruption has been increasing...
...function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every minute is costing us money," he said on the way through the labyrinthine corridors to the studio...
...courtroom is a jail cell; its high flat walls move square around you, and the windows are slatted with iron. But unlike a jail cell, which offers some sanctuary, Adlow's courtroom is thoroughly menacing. You are intimidated by the judge, by the bailiffs with their thick chins and thin lips, by the chuckling old men who come to watch every day, and mostly by the walls that hold you inside--even if you are a free man, as I was Thursday, just a spectator...
Korpi had left some friends in the suite earlier in the evening when he went out with a date. The friends left later, failing to extinguish candles burning in Korpi's bedroom, and when Korpi returned at 11:30 p.m. and opened the door to the suite, thick smoke was pouring out. Korpi turned in the alarm himself...
...comes in small, interlocking units, each of which looks like a giant pince-nez; they thus hug the contour of the land while presenting no joints to catch the sharp ski edges or the skier's thumb and fingers, should he fall. In addition, the units are covered with thick, round-ended bristles, colored green to guard against ultraviolet rays that make the plastic brittle...