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Word: thickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reads: "Due to mature content, parental consent suggested for readers under 18." The warning reflects the suggestiveness of the half-clothed models, and perhaps refers in large part to one photo of a topless girl. Above the label on the cover, an Abercrombie-outfitted, buff young man stares through thick black-rimmed glasses, looking decidedly misunderstood sipping from a mug advertising a budget travel agency. The reader is left to his or her own devices to assume that, after spending hundreds of dollars on his sweatshirt and vest, the poor young man was forced to cut a few corners while...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...hearty laughs and he never looked back, and he remained dedicated to his craft through thick and thin...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Where Have You Gone, Max Patkin? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...time CFD arrived, smoke hung thick in the air around Divinity Avenue and it had filled the chemistry...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Suspect Arson in Wolcott Gibbs Lab Fire | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

When Charlene Smith found the intruder in her house in Johannesburg, South Africa, she started screaming. But he had a knife, and very soon her hands were tied behind her back with rounds of thick masking tape. Then he raped her. But her ordeal was not over after he left. In a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, bureaucratic and hospital red tape kept her from getting preventive drugs for 5 1/2 hours. If she had not complained loudly and bitterly, she might never have got the medication. The experience left her stunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: An Epidemic of Rapes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Harvard is also riding the momentum off a huge win of its own. Last week's victory over Princeton, combined with Cornell's loss, propelled the Crimson right back into the thick of the Ivy League race, leaving it tied for second place with Yale and Penn and only one-half game behind Cornell and Brown with three games remaining...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Faces Deceptively Tough Dartmouth Tomorrow | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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