Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AWACS began eleven years ago, although the first Sentries were not flown until 1976. Boeing started with the airframe of a basic 707, strengthened it and replaced its four engines with more powerful jets. The plane's crucial external modification is the revolving radar disc, the 6-ft.-thick aluminum and fiberglass rotodome attached to the fuselage by two 11-ft. pylons. The radar was designed to work in tandem with an onboard high-speed computer, and its data is displayed on nine or more separate consoles inside the plane. It is this computer phalanx, with a program that...
...About as thick as kitchen paper toweling, artificial skin is soft, pliable and handles very much like the real thing, though it is not quite so sturdy. It is draped on burn sites in patches as large as 6 in. by 10 in. Says Burke: "The nerve fibers from below, which are still alive, grow up into the new material, just like blood vessels and connective tissue. So these patients have the same kind of sensations as with a skin graft. It isn't perfect, but it is very good." The artificial dermis breaks down as new natural tissue...
...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...
...manners, to put it kindly, are naive. The girls he dates when he dates at all are dogs, his conversation, when he talks at all, is incessantly intellectual and hardly what The New Yorker calls "sophisticated." Besides being childishly ignorant of his own inadequacies and ineptitudes, moreover, he wears thick glasses, has a large nose, and is flagrantly Jewish. None of the 100 percenters on Ivy's back porch were in so repugnant a state as this; even the sorriest of them participated in only a few of the characteristics of such an idea form, and then in an attenuated...
...talked about the Texas talk shows. "So mild it'll scare you," he said. "I went on it a few times from Florida and it's a cakewalk." He talked about the plush new clubhouse in Arlington Stadium. "They're beautiful, carpeting this thick," he said, holding up fingers three inches apart. "It's almost a shame to wear your spikes in there." Tough to get the players out on the field?" he was asked. "Not easy," said Zimmer...