Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monster Erector Set. Giant beams crisscross to form towers rising 23 stories above the waves. In the swampy bayous near the coast, production and drilling equipment stands in tight clusters at the older drilling sites. But as the mud-brown waters turn to green and finally blue, the rigs thin out; the most remote are exploring for gas 110 miles off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Some offshore rigs are pushing their steel drilling bits down through 1,800 ft. of water and then through 23,000 ft. of mud, shale and rock...
...J.P.L. project, which has a $5.5 million NASA grant, calls for a kitelike framework covered by a square of plastic film measuring a huge 800 meters (2,600 ft.) on a side. The thin sail (ordinary plastic kitchen wrap is five times thicker) would be coated with an aluminum reflecting layer on the side that will face the sun, and painted a heat-absorbing black on the other side. The total weight of the sail and the instrument-packed ship mounted in a hole at its center will be only 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lbs.)-a payload that could...
...right arm away from the wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards the ground. Her palm has opened and is ready to break her fall. Of course, the statuettes leave unsaid that this maneuver might also break all the bones in the dancer's thin wrist were she to plummet forward. But one suspects that Degas saw the possibilities...
...President Carter to throw out the first ball on opening day. Well, I'm trying to get Billy Carter. He's my kind of guy." Bantam Books rushed into print a collection of Billy's tell-it-like-it-is shots from the hip. An embarrassingly thin volume, Redneck Power: The Wit and Wisdom of Billy Carter sells for $1.50, yet went through its first printing of 210,000 within a week. Billy had nothing to do with the book and even made some noises about legal action when he got wind of it. But the book...
...crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed has soared, ranchers virtually dumped herds, further depressing what they could get for them...