Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are several novelty strains of sweet corn, notably "candy stick," which is only one inch thick but a foot long and is ideal for freezing; other innovations include the first bush-type butternut squash and a tomato, Long-Keeper, that stays fresh up to four months after picking. The redoubtable Burpee catalogue alone offers such enticements as the spacemaster cucumber, a pumpkin whose seeds can be eaten raw, and Sugar Bush watermelon, which represent years of genetic selection not only for flavor but -more important to the home gardener -for compact growth in a limited space...
...emotional drive and immediacy of student activist movements. Student groups working for change today tend to choose their goals more carefully and deliberately than their predecessors of ten years ago; and the chances for serious, violent confrontation are much smaller. Post-Watergate kids grew up with a certain thick-skinned cynicism: a lot of The System is venal, maybe most of it, but it's no use bashing your head against it to make it change...
...starting gun fires at noon, cheers break the tension-filled air, and a slow, thick mass of human lava flows down the Hopkinton road towards Boston. For the next several hours all that matters is your body, the distance and the time...
...mostly true what you say about Maui [March 26], but there are some flaws in Paradise: the tourists are so thick on West Maui that they get into each other's snapshots. Fortunately, the island is critically dependent upon the jets flying. If oil slows, the happy squeaks will be from the residents able finally to rust in peace...
John Diebold spreads a week's worth of Wall Street Journals on the thick blue carpet of his Park Avenue office and jabs a forefinger at story after story. The headlines tell the real news about business today. They speak of all the new ethics rules, the multiplying Government regulations, tire recalls, affirmative action programs and the demands of environmentalists, feminists, unionists, minorities, politicians, employees, shareholders. Diebold makes his point: the rising demands of society are forcing businesses to respond and change...