Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only looked, I actually saw the world for the very first time. And what an astonishing sight that was! Our little courtyard seemed without limits. There was buzzing from the sands of invisible bees, an intoxicating aroma, a warm sun as thick as honey. The air flashed as though armed with swords, and, between the swords, erect, angle-like incidents with colorful motionless wings advanced straight...
...impression he was on a vacation," said the mother-in-law of a U.S. Army lieutenant when she learned last week that he had been wounded in a fierce nighttime confrontation with the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam. "We never knew he was in the thick of things...
...Stateside Americans have been altogether aware of the scope and savagery of the war in Viet Nam, or even perceived how deep in the thick of things their nation is there. Despite all the headlines, all the vignettes of heroism and horror, all the demonstrations and counterdemonstrations in the U.S. itself, the average American, cushioned by prosperity and a span of 8,500 miles, has found it hard to realize that the struggle in Southeast Asia is indeed a war. But it is-and that fact was driven home last week as never before when a fresh, division-strength Communist...
...evident in his choice last week of Thursday, Nov. 4, as the moment to make his presidential intentions known to a presumably breathless world. The mystery part was a bit thin (few observers doubt that De Gaulle will run for a second term), but the history was laid on thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover, St. Charles, like his namesake, was once the target for an assassination attempt -by a disgruntled monk whose...
...attacked in force, waving their tiny feelers, the elephant did not even see them. He thundered down the trail, trampling them underfoot. Then a new generation of ants came along, and they were much cleverer. Instead of attacking in the open, the ants lured the elephant deep into the thick bamboo, where he could neither see nor move about easily. The ants swarmed up his legs and attacked his eyes, mouth and the soft pink flesh inside his trunk. The elephant thrashed around, confused and maddened, and in the end he was reduced to a pile of whitened bones...