Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton's Zabel projected that robust look of salubriousness. Thick legs, big chest, curly hair, you picture him quaffing a glass of milk and striding about Princeton's hillocked campus, feet sandal-shorn and nostrils flaring to gulp in the spring air. His physical vigorousness translates into an intensely competitive spirit, and the first three and a half games of the two New Yorkers' match filled itself with innumerable let calls and questionings...
...census taking can be hazardous. The employees counting poison darts and hedgehogs required thick cloth gloves; those cataloguing protozoa developed eyestrain after weeks of staring intently into microscopes; those working with uranium samples had to wear special devices to monitor levels of radiation; and those tallying mammals preserved in alcohol experienced queasy stomachs. "It doesn't smell like Chivas Regal in those collections," sniffed one researcher...
...faxed by the less-than-rollicking atmosphere in this very ordinary Somerville saloon. Down in front of the stage, the people who've just got to move to the beat are failing about, but no one comes close to bumping into anyone else. Guitarist Roger Miller blasts out thick, distorted chords, one piled on top of another for a sound that is at once 1969 techno-pop. Sound man Martin Swope stoops over a mixing board near the back of the dance floor, recording Miller's efforts, scrambling things around, and then feeding the whole mess back through...
...those generous-sized oblong lollipops that bend into curious little cow licks after they've been in your mouth for a white. I remember a commercial for Sugar Daddies that used to be on TV. In showed a vat powering--and it seemed like it would poor eternally--the thick golden brown syrup that eventually hardened into the lollipops. On Golden Pond is a lot like that. You walk out feeling like someone has poured thick sugar syrup all over you. Of course, that need not be so had, I like an occasional Sugar Daddy. But the experience is still...
Executives at the Burbank, Calif., headquarters of Lockheed Corp. were all smiles last week, while at rival McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis the gloom was thick enough to slice with a propeller. The reason: word had leaked out that the Pentagon was recommending the $4.6 billion purchase of 50 of the giant Lockheed C-5Ns as cargo airlifters for the nation's rapid deployment force. The decision was an unexpected one, since only last August chiefs of the Air Force, Army and Marines had unanimously recommended that a new plane designed by McDonnell Douglas...