Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band of vocal editors suggests fresh definitions: "sensual," "off the nest," "reborn," "glamourized," "well maintained." "Too much like automobiles," trills Lear, shooting across the room like a small comet. At 65, she's delicately handsome: 5 ft. 6 in., 115 lbs., with a taut dancer's body, sandblasted jawline, thick uncolored platinum hair and barely a trace of makeup except for one "expensive cosmetic," the face-lifting, her first done in her late 40s. Her fastidiously tailored look is accented by understated braided-gold Cartier jewelry and a black-band Tiffany watch. But behind the reserved, nearly studied exterior...
...dredging barges. Onshore, ten-man crews hosed down rocks with heated seawater. The two-pronged drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick advanced, it stretched supply lines farther and farther from the Valdez staging base. Without proper floating barriers to protect their harbor, fishermen in the village of Seldovia had to fashion their...
...designed to withstand shelling from Japan's battleships. The Iowa was fitted with nine 16-in. guns capable of propelling shells weighing as much as 2,700 lbs. a distance of 23 miles. Three six-story turrets holding the guns were encased in armor up to 17 1/2 in. thick. When last week's explosion occurred during training exercises about 330 miles off Puerto Rico, that protective armor turned the turret into a tightly sealed pressure cooker...
...married an entertainer turned exterminator and raised Phoebe and her sister in the subdued suburban environs of Teaneck, N.J. Phoebe was a shy child. "If you remember," she says, "in high school there were always a couple of kids whose clothes were on crooked, whose glasses were really thick and hung sideways. Their hair was never right, and their clothes didn't match, and they looked like little lost souls wandering down the hallway. That...
...really frustrated then," says McCormack, recalling the incident. "The team was rolling, and we were just entering the thick of the schedule, playing up to three nights a week. I wanted to be a part...