Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months before entering Harvard, I received a thick packet which contained lengthy pamphlets detailing Harvard's history, the Core curriculum, the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, the Expository Writing program, the House system, the schedule for freshman week, and countless other tidbits too rich to be digested immediately. Buried amid this minutiae, however, was a summer reading list of just two works, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Education of Henry Adams...
TONY Montana, the Cuban drug leader made famous by Al Pacino in Scarface, is the foremost example of Hollywood's currently favored stereotype. Montana is cold and ruthless. He sniffs everything from cocaine to slush puppies. And, of course, his accent is so thick that even a chainsaw couldn't affect...
Unhygienic conditions are coupled with a general ignorance about reproduction and its hazards. Sex education is rarely taught in school. Many a young woman panics when she sees her first menstrual blood, having no idea what it signifies. Her options for dealing with menstruation are unpleasant: thick, rough pads or cotton batting. That may soon change, however. Moscow is negotiating with an American firm to set up a joint venture for the production in the Soviet Union of up to 25 million tampons a year...
...sipped their cafe con leche and bit hungrily into freshly baked Cuban bread spread thick with butter. Wax-lined baskets of bollitos, deep- fried balls of ground black-eyed peas, were passed around. "Eat, eat. No ^ diets allowed here," they coaxed one another in Spanish. Still, their well- spoken English is an accented blend of Southern drawl and Latin staccato...
Based on two decades of research by more than 50 scientists, Koop's 1 1/2- in.-thick treatise, titled The Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction, earned unanimous accolades from the medical community as well as praise from politicians. "The Surgeon General's report is a clear challenge to all who care about the health of smokers," says Ovide Pomerleau, professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Michigan. "This socially approved habit is going to go the way of the spittoon." Among Koop's recommendations: warning labels about addiction on packages of tobacco products, a ban on cigarette vending...