Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ball is handed to O.J. Simpson, who takes it up the middle. But there was a difference last week as the 49ers called 30-pull late in their season finale with Atlanta: Simpson was carrying the ball for the last time after eleven years of professional football and a thick sheaf of records: most yardage in a single season; most career 200-plus-yard games (six); most consecutive 100-plus-yard games (seven...
...smooth out his jumbled syntax, Kennedy's staff has put together thick black briefing binders filled with direct, simple answers to questions that may arise. "I feel more comfortable on the podium now," says Kennedy and indeed he sometimes strikes a certain rhythm in his basic stump speech that can rouse an audience. "What we have now is not a malaise among the American people, but a malaise in the highest levels of leadership," he booms, slashing the air with one hand and flipping large note cards with the other. "A can't-do President...
...German in The Formula, French Actress Dominique Sanda appeared for a first reading with George C. Scott, who stars as a Los Angeles detective involved with both her and a synthetic-oil conspiracy, whatever that is, while investigating a routine murder. Scott found Sanda's French accent so thick that he had difficulty understanding her. That would make for bad acting and a bad movie. Change the fraulein, as Hollywood often does, to a mademoiselle? Great Scott, not in this case. At Scott's insistence, Sanda was paid $350,000, packed off to Paris and replaced by Swiss...
Congressman George Hansen is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and .025 mm thick. He is a piece of video tape, an electronic actor raised to global status through a system gone...
...fund makes major loans to other provinces (at competitive rates), but its main purpose is to bankroll Alberta's economic future. The provincial government has acquired its own Pacific Western Airlines; set up a local company to invest in all forms of energy, including oil from the thick, gummy tar sands; and offers fat incentives to new firms willing to open up in smaller communities...