Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to Kohl's references to eventual German reunification, Andropov warned that if the NATO missiles were deployed, the people of East and West Germany would have to "look at each other through a thick palisade of missiles." He said the military threat to West Germany would "grow manifold," implying that the Soviets would react to the Pershing II and cruise deployment by installing nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe. Said Andropov: "The Soviet Union finds it hard to understand what the Federal Republic hopes to gain from the deployment of American missiles, our measures in response and the saturation...
...palace, Kapuściński ventures outdoors to an area where dishwashers are throwing out leftovers from the banquet tables. A strange sound issues from the far side of the garbage dump. "I noticed that something was moving, shifting, murmuring, squishing, sighing, and smacking its lips . . . In the thick night, a crowd of barefoot beggars stood huddled together . . . I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish heads with laborious concentration. In the meticulous absorption of this eating there was an almost violent biological abandon-the satisfaction of hunger in anxiety and ecstasy...
...succession of angles that, when the eye pushes through them, disclose more tangles beyond. The light is murky. Such color as is there is local-a flurry of pink, a sudden network of vermilion slashes. Otherwise it is all bog color, glazed browns reflecting other browns, dank mossy greens, thick in tone...
...cartoon character who has somehow aged into a carping Catskills comic; or a late-show pitchman, peddling Galactic Prophylactics and the Funeral in a Cab; or a suburban dandy, with attitudes and accent straight off the Main Line; or even an Irish priest, his brogue as thick as a County Clare mist...
Mining companies began hollowing out the caverns in the 1940s as they dug for limestone for highway construction. Rather than use the opencut quarry method, which scars the landscape, miners tunneled deep into bluffs along a limestone seam 22½ ft. thick, creating rooms with pillars. In all, 200 million sq. ft. of space has been scooped out over the years, and an additional 6 million sq. ft. is being opened up annually...