Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argue that a court of law should subordinate the 'rule of law' in favor of more 'fundamental principles' of revolutionary action designed forcibly to oust governments, courts and all. This self-contradictory sort of theory-all decked out in the forms of law with thick papers, strings of precedent, and the rest-is ultimately at the heart of the plaintiffs' case." It was not surprising that Frankel found their case both "unsound" and "untenable...
Despite Britain's various economic ills, one thriving enterprise racked up record sales of over $60 million last year. This was Harrods department store, a venerable London institution, where a good portion of the total-some $14 million-was spent by non-British customers. Foreigners were so thick on the ground at Harrods earlier this month that, as Managing Director Alfred Spence recalls, "You were hard pressed to find English spoken in some departments." What brings them there is partly a feeling that shopping at Harrods is a dignified, particularly English experience...
During his first months in Bolivia, Che set about trying to show green troops how to cut through the thick jungle underbrush and how to live off the land, noting once that his hunters had "managed to get two monkeys, a parrot and a dove." He determined "to write to Sartre and B. Russell to have them organize an international fund to help the Bolivian Liberation Movement." Shortly after his troops staged their first hit-and-run attack on the army, killing seven men, Che gloated: "Perhaps this is the first episode of a new Viet Nam." On his birthday...
...more hazardous duty. Now in the first stages of training as a loadmaster for C-123 transport planes, President Johnson's younger son-in-law will eventually be charged with loading and dumping out supplies to troops in the field-an assignment that may take him into the thick of combat...
...University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues that classical bassists could learn much from...