Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come straight out of the comic books. Metropolis's skyline is faultless. The Daily Planet, Clark Kent's apartment, City Hall, and scores of other familiar landmarks move effortlessly on and off the stage. Unfortunately, Superman himself is another matter. The wire he dangles from looks like a cable thick enough to hold the Queen Mary. And the illusion of flying is hardly enforced if you sit at the side and see Holiday waiting high up in the wings for each of his entrances...
...holding my "face" in one hand, I began to demolish the project with a hammer in the other. Pieces near my eyes broke off, and Bette sliced away blindly with a pair of scissors, shearing off my eyelashes. Once I could see, I was able to remove my inch-thick plaster skullcap by crushing it with a pair of pliers and combing out the remains. I had a rather blank expression for several weeks...
...little, said his enemies among the owners-and last week they forced him to quit with a year still to go on his 50,000-a-year contract. As Foss's sucessor they chose Oakland Raiders Coach Al Davis. Foss's good advice to Davis: "Wear a thick skin and a soft mile, and carry a sense of humor...
...needed, says the A.M.A., is a thermometer that will not cause injury. But no U.S. manufacturer has yet produced a safer thermometer at an economic price. A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration. The best the A.M.A. can suggest is that nurses and mothers be instructed in how to insert a thermometer correctly, and told never to leave a child or a debilitated patient alone with the thermometer in place...
...million in military hardware, but nevertheless it intends to spend another $13.8 million in Asia this year for supplies that would take too long to come all the way from Stateside. Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese army, and the Japanese are providing nylon sandbags, barbed wire and prefabricated buildings. Taiwan is negotiating with the U.S. to supply mortar shells and machine...