Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although still in the thick of the presidential campaign, staunch conservatives are not ignoring the prospect of a Goldwater defeat. If Goldwater loses, "the hard core will remain," comments Edward Friend, a prominent Milwaukee conservative and former chairman of Wisconsin's fifth Congressional district. "They're doing it because they have convictions--they're dedicated, motivated...They would rather die than surrender what they honestly believe in their hearts...
...crowd was thick at the triangular Dealey Plaza, on the western end of downtown Dallas. There the motorcade slowed down to turn right into Houston Street for one block; then it turned left onto Elm?and, traveling at precisely 11.2 m.p.h., headed down a slight slope past the seven-story, orange brick headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Co., a private firm that distributes textbooks. Inside the Lincoln, Mrs. Connally turned and smiled: "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you." Replied Kennedy, smiling: "That is very obvious...
...able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their path. The time difference between pulse and echo, shown as a peak on a tiny oscilloscope (like a one-inch TV tube) held in an assistant surgeon's hand, indicated...
Last week Jimmy Cassiday conceded: "Well, dad, I guess I lost my interest in bullets." Thanks to the operation and to the thick glass lens he will wear, like that of an elderly cataract patient, he will not lose his sight...
Knout came in for the lion's share of criticism this time around. Poll after poll called him "dumb," "unintelligent," "thick-skulled," "stupid," or moronic." As one student summarized the feelings of the class: "That man is an idiot...