Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next year. Now, it is the fall of next year. Snow turned to rain, to dirty tire-gray streams in the sidewalk ice. Then spring came slowly, stayed shortly. Commencement was not crisp and bright. The sky was thick and the ground was heavy. Then we lost them--the seniors--they disappeared in the witches' kettle of summer. We have not seen them since. And now it is the fall, and soggy leaves lie in the gutter like Corn Flakes left in the bowl too long...
Kirchner conducted the three cantatas with his peculiar blend of romanticism and objectivity. His own music displays a predilection for big chords and thick, lush sonorities, and this love of sound for its own sake carried over into his interpretation of the Bach. Kirchner demanded a full-bodied sound from his small ensemble. Occasionally his insistence backfired, as in the final chorus of "ewiges Feuer" (BWV 34) where the sopranos had to force and went noticably sharp. Most of the choruses were full of dramatic dynamic contrasts, crescendi and decrescendi. And Kirchner had no qualms about taking expressive liberties with...
...determine if any of the plutonium-uranium 235 trigger or contaminated wreckage melted into-or even through-the 9-ft.-thick ice in the fire that followed the crash, technicians have taken ice-core samples that will be an alyzed for radioactivity in U.S. and Danish labs. If it is determined that any substantial amount of hot debris penetrated the ice and sank to the bottom of Baffin Bay, 800 ft. below, deep-diving submersibles (TIME, Jan. 19) may be called in to recover it, just as they were in the Palomares crash...
Texaco's 4,000,000-acre claim is carpeted with thick jungle fed by a 200-inch annual rainfall. As one engineer puts it: "Five hours without rain is a dry season." To make matters worse, the Orito field in Putumayo is 193 miles from the Pacific port of Tumaco, and in between loom the Andes mountains, requiring a pipeline rising to 11,450 ft. Because of the physical difficulties, development costs became prohibitive for Texaco alone, so the company formed a fifty-fifty partnership with Gulf, which supplied the necessary capital boost while Texaco handled the exploration...
...found assorted bomb fragments and debris, including four parachutes that had been stored in the weapons' tail assemblies, strong indications that all four H-bombs were smashed to bits in the skidding crash and explosion. But some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water, which will pose problems in the expected later effort to collect as much wreckage as possible for burial. Unless the small amount of radiation is ruled harmless, the recovery team may face the long task of breaking up and disposing...