Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system, NASA set up elaborate reporting channels that produced reams of paper. Quickly the paper became so plentiful that it masked rather than exposed the problems. The Rogers report is expected to detail the extraordinary tale of the now famous O rings, the synthetic-rubber circles, .28 in. thick and 37.5 ft. in circumference, designed to make certain that the superhot gases generated within each solid booster could not escape through the joints of the rocket's segments. When flames did penetrate a rocket joint on Challenger, they ignited the shuttle's external liquid-fuel tank, causing the explosion...
...smooth, connected sentences. As if by conjurer's trick, the laborer is transformed into the scholar, a solitary thinker who shies away from the world of action, a man of introspection who rises early to wrestle with questions of motivation and desire and write about them in a thick loose-leaf notebook...
There was a plastic bat and a plastic ball, a thick slate plate, and a chalk batters box. At Jon's house, we used to play hard ball--until Jon fouled one back through his kitchen window. Then we had to play whiff there...
Still, Southern says, she has only now found her "niche" at Harvard. "I had a difficult time at first because I don't look like a Harvard professor. I don't wear thick-soled shoes; I don't have gray hair; I don't smoke; and I don't even look like a typical woman professor because they are supposed to have white skin and short haircuts, and a gray streak here and there...
...buns cost $1.25 each, and the top Kansas City shop grossed $50,000 in March. All the bakeries follow much the same routine, offering the rolls as the only solid food, along with coffee, tea and soft drinks. As each one is purchased, it gets a lacing of a thick, viscous white icing, unless the customer protests. At Cinnamon Sam's in Kansas City and Cinnamon Kitchen in Tampa, the buns can be "personalized" with a choice of toppings, such as caramel nut, honey butter, rum raisin, apple and cinnamon...