Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sanh has been dug out of the red clay of a plateau that is ringed by high hills thick with trees and bamboo. Some 15 miles south of the DMZ and only ten miles east of the Laotian border, the Marine base lies directly athwart the easiest infiltration routes into South Viet Nam. To eliminate the roadblock, the North Vietnamese have ranged an estimated 20,000 men directly around Khe Sanh, have at least another 20,000 in reserve in Laos and immediately north of the DMZ, all located within 20 miles of the post. Together, they constitute the largest...
Adzope is one of a score of drab, sprawling towns which you pass on the Ivory Coast's main highway north of Abidjan. The West African countryside is absolutely flat, and in the thick coastal forest the town is invisible until a turn in the road brings you into the center. Then suddenly the wall of the trees opens up, and there is a glimpse of long dirt roads, gas station signs and telephone poles, laundry spread out on the grass to dry, and people walking past rows of identical shops stacked with bright plastic washtubs. The reflection...
...years, the $95 million John Hancock Center will be the world's second-tallest (1,107 ft.) building, after Manhattan's Empire State Building (102 stories and 1,250 ft.). Last week beneath the street level of Lower Manhattan, workmen were pouring 3-ft.-thick concrete foundations for the future champ, the Port of New York Authority's twin, 110-story World Trade Center towers (1,350 ft. high...
...most repetitive, pervasive obscenity of any film ever made." He may well be right, but it is rather hard to tell. Much of Wild 90 is utterly unintelligible, with a partially overloaded sound track and a thoroughly overloaded cast of characters who are barely able to get their thick tongues around the four-letter words...
Lowenstein at 38 looks more like a Jewish New York lawyer than John the Baptist. Of average height with thick black glasses and short black hair, Lowenstein now usually dresses in a slightly rumpled business suit. Before his marriage a little more than a year ago, it wasn't unusual to see him conducting meetings with college students in a white T-shirt and an old pair of chinos...