Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kennedy: "He published the inside story of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers' flight over Russia on the same day Powers went on trial. The story gives the details of how Powers fought to get his plane started, after stalling at 70,000 feet; how he came down to thicker air around 35,000 feet, then was attacked by a swarm of angry Russian jet fighters...
...found what he wanted, and it is exactly the sort of thing one might have expected. Although how he went about finding it is shrouded in fogs thicker than Chicago's own, it is clear at least that the platform is his, not Goldwater's, or Eisenhower's, or even Rockefeller's. The reason for this also is obvious enough: Nixon is neither a Goldwater nor a Rockefeller, and he has had to step adroitly to keep out of trouble with both wings of his party...
...Maria Velasco Ibarra, 67, was the only one of Ecuador's four candidates who correctly sensed the sharply heightened appeal of learning, land, and a thicker slice of the national economy in an agricultural nation where nearly half of the people are illiterate and the annual per capita income is $172. The Sorbonne-educated professor of government, ascetically lean and given to wearing natty waistcoats, called to him "all the multi tudes who dream of a new life with jus tice and real democratic equality, without privileged parties." He recalled the roads and schools that he lavished...
...Princeton's Director Edwards turned down one father's offer of a $500,000 geology building, along with his son. Not even a proffered letter from the President of the U.S. on behalf of one applicant moved M.I.T.'s Director of Admissions B. Alden Thresher ("The thicker the folder, the thicker the student"). He insisted on a letter from a math teacher instead. And the point has sunk in. Says Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson: "I haven't had any payola offered to me in years-not even a chocolate...