Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will cost perhaps $1,000,000 to make Bikini habitable again. Thick, matted underbrush must be cleared and coconut palms planted to replace trees seared by atomic blasts. Two islets where tests were conducted have been blown off the map. Bikinians may have to forgo eating land crabs and pounded arrowroot, two delicacies that retain dangerous radioactive isotopes. But the overall level of radiation is now no higher than that of the city of Denver, and the Bikini lagoon teems with edible fish. It was the lagoon that they missed most during exile at Kili, where thundering waves often made...
...poetry. "To name an object," the symbolist poet had written, "is to do away with three-quarters of the enjoyment. To suggest it, to evoke it -that is what charms the imagination." The art of suggestion, Vuillard discovered, required subtle materials; oil on canvas seemed too shiny and thick. He started painting on unprepared pasteboard, which absorbed some of the color. He also turned to pastels for sketching, and experimented with powdered colors. Success came early and easy, but it frightened him. "I must look out," he said. "Well-meaning patrons may disturb my routine." By 1914, however, the spotlight...
...classes open, on the theory that administrators will react harshly, thus generating sympathy for the militants. Others have proposed more subtie harassments, such as gumming up registration by filing wrong information on computer cards. In any case, the administration is preparing for the worst. Last week workmen were installing thick, rockproof Plexiglas windows in Kirk's Low Library office...
...Letters. Then he's up off the chaise and inside the house. In another moment he's joined me at the umbrella-covered picnic table, a thick folder filled with newspaper clippings in his hand...
...government knows its history too, and has no intention of seeing it repeated. Last week a thick coating of asphalt settled over the elegantly patterned cobblestones of the Rue des Ecoles, the Rue Saint-Jacques and the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the main battlegrounds around the Sorbonne in France's recent upheavals. After all, the riots of 1830 and 1848 had sent two of Charles de Gaulle's predecessors, King Charles X and King Louis Philippe, into retirement and obscurity...