Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left arm back and forth as if to test its freedom. He reached for a hand rail, and quickly his entire body came clear of the hatch. Now it could be seen that he was dressed in a bulky pressure suit, with cylinders strapped on his back and a thick cable twisting behind...
...Leonov's space suit. One Russian commentator called it "autonomous," which means that it is independent of the spaceship except for a simple tether. The pictures do show cylinders on Leonov's back that probably held oxygen, but the cable attaching him to the spaceship was thick enough to contain a good-sized oxygen tube. It may be an umbilical cord supplying oxygen from the spaceship's tanks, besides carrying wires for communication and telemetering. The tube could also carry away carbon dioxide from Leonov's breathing, water vapor from his perspiration and excess heat...
...covered the sandy bulge of the waist of Florida with an architectural fantasy that began with the now familiar pattern of old Cape Kennedy proper: the bending, baking shoreline, the line of steel launching towers covered with red, rustproofing paint, the overgrown concrete igloos, blastproof behind 2-ft.-thick steel doors...
...Viet Cong waited until a thick layer of rain cloud covered the mountain crests around Kannack. Insured against U.S. jet attacks, they struck, nearly 1,000 strong, at the camp's north, south and east flanks. Dozens of assault squads in black shorts and green kerchiefs of parachute silk slipped up to the barbed-wire perimeter carrying Bangalore torpedoes. There followed bangs galore...
...fashion's delight and men's despair, women and foundation garments have been inseparable for years. Feast or famine, thick or thin (mostly thick) they have clung to each other, lending ironclad support here (with a corset), whaleboned comfort there (with a waist cincher), out-and-out camouflage (with a wire-braided bustle or a foam-rubber bust) as far as the eye could see. Trouble was, the eye could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks...