Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Iowa, Mondale is slugging, Glenn is sagging, and Hart is hanging in First Des Moines and Cedar Rapids in Iowa, then Manchester and Concord in New Hampshire: plain-folks places nearly as thick with TV equipment and visiting reporters as Sarajevo had been the week before. But unlike the Olympics, which had enough surprises to keep things interesting, the quadrennial race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to look like a predictable rout. "We got the gold and silver medals," declared Walter Mondale's polltaker, Peter Hart, after the Iowa caucuses. "Everybody else fought over the bronze...
White American writers tended to end their books and their characters' lives as if there were no better existence for which to struggle The gloom of defeat is thick...
Maureen was the flickering flame that radiated what warmth he had in his life. She was his twin, a big handsome woman with a big freckled face, heavy underlike breasts, thick thighs, and a bottom that overflowed the edge of the chair when she had down... She was an earth girl, assiduous in bed and equally assiduous in the farmyard...
Half an hour after the attack, a Milan radio station received an anonymous phone call. "This is the Fighting Communist Party," said a man with a thick Roman accent. "We must claim the attempt on General Hunt, the guarantor of the Camp David agreements...
...Winter gambols, and all three women's race winners were known only to journalists who traveled the World Cup circuit. Armstrong was obscure, but so was Paoletta Magoni, 19, an Italian who won the slalom when half the women entered fell or missed gates in a thick fog. And Ursula Konzett, a 24-year-old Liechtensteiner, took the bronze. The only known quantity here was France's Perrine Pelen, who won the silver and, earlier, a bronze behind Armstrong and Cooper in the G.S. Four years ago, Pelen took a bronze in the G.S. at Lake Placid...