Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future looks bright for Mullen, but the rolls are thick with others who have yet to make it. Former Crimson blueliner Jackie Hughes a veteran of three 'Pots is plying his trade in the unlikely locale of Fort Worth for a Colorado Rockies farm club, while one of Mullen's Eagle teammates. 1976 Beanpot MVP Paul Skidmore, is tending net in Salt Lake City for the Blues tranchise there...
...normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed by mud slides. In Santa Cruz County, to the south, where thousands of people were trapped their homes without power or water, authorities suspect that perhaps...
...lines would begin to form at dawn. As winter drew on, the people would bundle up in layers of thick clothing and stand silently huddled together, shifting from one foot to the other to try to keep warm. Outside of food stores the queues would often stretch for 50 yards or more. The ordeal was particularly hard on elderly couples and on young mothers who had to find someone to care for their infants at home...
...ability to "read" the grooves on a phonograph record and identify the music on it-with the label and other identifying marks covered, of course. Lintgen simply holds a disc flat in front of him, turning it slightly this way and that and peering along its grooves through his thick glasses. After a few seconds he calmly announces, as the case may be, ''Stravinsky's Rite of Spring," or "Strauss's Alpine Symphony," or "Janacek's Sinfonietta...
...will be in the Reagan White House, where 19 members of the family and close friends will come for Christmas dinner. To accompany the turkey, the President will get his favorite sweet potatoes with marshmaUows and even some monkey bread, a thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...