Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initially designated "John Doe"? The police had few clues: height, 5 ft. 3 in.; weight, 120 Ibs.; eyes, brown; hair, thick, black; accent, foreign, but not readily classifiable. He had a broken index finger and a sprained ankle as a result of the struggle in the pantry, but his basic condition was good. His fingerprints disclosed no criminal record in any law-enforcement agency. Reddin thought he might be a Cuban or a West Indian. He car ried no identifying papers, but had four $100 bills, a $5 bill, four singles and some change; a car key; a recent David...
...helped transform Anaheim from a small, dusty town set amid orange groves into a pleasant and bustling city. To cope with the tourists, 3,500 motel and hotel rooms have been built (Disney's own hotel has grown from 150 to 616 rooms) and restaurants have sprouted thick as asparagus outside the superpark's gates...
...feet, the first thing Building Wrecker Walter J. Piper did was to throw away his crow bar. The act came within a quarter of an inch of taking his life. Sliding down a beam as the roof fell, Piper, 69, plummeted onto the 5-ft.-long, l-in.-thick tool, which had lodged point up in a pile of debris. The crowbar rammed through Piper's scrotum, smashed his pelvis, punctured his intestines, stomach, diaphragm and a lung before stopping within a quarter of an inch to the right of his heart...
Then came the worst plague-a drenching thunderstorm and an on-and-off drizzle climaxed by a 17-hour deluge. Before it ended, the greensward had been churned into six inches of gumbo as thick as Delta farm land, and clouds of mosquitoes dive-bombed the dwellers. To avert dysentery and flu epidemics, the leaders evacuated 100 of the 2,400 residents, mostly toddlers, until the campsite could dry out. Still, the campaign's leaders professed themselves undiscouraged. "I was talking to the Lord," Bevel reported, "and he said he was going to let a little mud in here...
...African tribesmen and Italian workers doggedly continued to lay down six miles of pipeline a day. If they manage to stick to their schedule, "the Great Snake," as the natives call the $45 million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp...