Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guides the boat across Lake Charles, Captain Cretini, a powerful man, as thick in the thighs as some simps are in the chest, gives freely of his Louisiana past. Born less than five miles from where he lives today with his wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading...
...James Nunez, chief wildlife-and-fisheries enforcement officer for the area. Nunez operates out of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge near Grand Chenier. The drive there is through marsh country, with egrets and heron everywhere and a duck-hunting dog in every man's yard. The canals are thick with lily pads and anglers, and the talk is of the upcoming opening of teal season. (During the Iranian crisis, it was locally claimed that ten Cajuns could have saved the day if you put them in the desert and told them 1) Iranians were out of season, 2) there...
There were, almost from the start, two Kings. Mr. Outside grew up in Durham, Me., where his mother had moved to care for her aging parents. He was oversized and ungainly, with a thatch of unruly black hair, buck teeth and thick glasses, the one who was predictably chosen last in sandlot games. Mr. Inside was the fatherless boy who held a lot of "anger that has never been directed. In my inward life, I still boil a lot." So it is no surprise that many of King's books could be fairly called "The Revenge of the Nerds...
...course, the irony of this controversy is that the celebration was intended as a contrast to the gala in early September; a festivity for the whole University, not just for prestigious alumni. But elitism runs too thick in Epps' veins. Instead of kowtowing to distinguished alumni, he now kowtows to distinguished students. In so doing, he once again divides the university into a large "us-and-them": the haves and the have-nots, the successful and the unsuccessful, the invited and the uninvited...
...trains that help carry gold ore to the surface. Suddenly, an acetylene tank sparked and flared. Flames swept through the tunnel, igniting plastic-covered wiring, which in turn set fire to polyurethane foam that keeps the walls dry and solid. Within minutes the mine shaft filled with thick black smoke containing toxic fumes from the burning plastic. Choking miners immediately fell and died of asphyxiation. When the initial 9 1/2-hour rescue operation ended, 177 were dead, one was missing, and 235 were injured, making Kinross the worst gold-mine disaster in South African history. All but five of the victims...