Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet Riviera town of Fréjus (see map), French engineers five years ago built Malpasset Dam. A graceful, sweeping arc of concrete 738 ft. long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...Spirit of Christmas (Ken Darby Orchestra and Chorus; Decca LP). A spectral-voiced Spirit, serving as a kind of narrator, is reminiscent of a pretentious Inner Sanctum mystery, but Bandleader Darby's taffy-thick dance arrangements will probably be dandy as Music to Hold an Office Party...
Because most of them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...
...expression the sculptor got on that fellow," Brundage says, tapping his thick thumbs, "you can think about for a long while. There are lots of stories about the lohans. Maybe this one left his body to go on an exploration of space, and when he came back, his body wasn't there and he had to take the form of a beggar...
...bare 2 yds. away from the quarter back, returning his stare in challenge, waits the key man of the proud New York Giant defense: Middle Linebacker Sam Huff (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.), a confident, smiling fighter fired with a devout desire to sink a thick shoulder into every ball carrier in the National Football League...