Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stopped. "This is it," said the P.L.O. official who was acting as our guide. It did not look like much: a simple, hutlike shelter such as shepherds use. Guards watched as we bent to pass through the door. Stairs led down several levels to a vast underground complex with thick, reinforced-concrete walls...
...predicament is something that Lee ponders as he sits by the coal stove in the kitchen of his neat, sturdy farmhouse. His feet are covered with thick blue socks; the Amish remove their shoes before entering the home. His blue eyes are gentle behind sensible, old-fashioned glasses, his beard is appropriately patriarchal, his voice surprisingly soft. "I'm a man who wakes every morning and thanks God for what is," Lee says. "I don't worry. I work. I believe that the Government of the U.S. is fair and just. It is not the Amish habit...
...next day workmen tried again. And again and again and again. BUILDING 5, DOCKS 0 was the headline in the Mobile Register. And no wonder: constructed by the WPA in the 1930s, the building, all 1 million bricks of it, boasted such features as walls up to 20-in. thick and 72 support pillars of reinforced steel. The frustrated wreckers swore that they could blow the building clear across the Mobile River if they could use heavier explosive charges; city officials replied that they might take half the town with...
...standard, the security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras...
Such large-scale earth-moving can have serious implications for the entire region's ecology. There was never much topsoil in the area but thick forest held the ground and rainwater tumbled down innumerable streams hidden in extremely steep valleys. But during and after mining, when the trees and topsoil are gone, water flows straight down the hillside, taking a good portion of the mountain with it. Silt has filled in many-of the area's streams, and the water table is deteriorating as previously reliable wells run dry. Martiki has built a large silt dam to capture the dirt...