Word: thickest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed sonar made depth measurements far more sensitive, giving oceanographers a more accurate look at the ocean's bottom than they had ever had before. The new loran, which can fix a ship's position within a quarter of a mile in daylight, night, or in the thickest fog, enabled a far more detailed and accurate study of ocean currents, and oceanographers launched zealously into new studies with their new tools...
...work very well, chiefly because of crude instruments and because the effect of ocean currents was often unknown. But if a ship could have measured accurately its motion across the solid ocean bottom instead of the fluid surface, dead reckoning would have brought it to any harbor through the thickest...
That thirst for knowledge which causes man to seek what lies in the heart of hurricanes and harridans had sent a U.S. B50 typhoon reconnaissance plane flying up into the thickest of the weather with 16 men aboard. Somewhere in Emma's maw the B50 broke radio contact and was never heard or seen again. Emma whipped on, toward Soviet Sakhalin...
...conferences, both questions and answers were reviewed at the Pentagon by an Air Force task force and by a high-ranking Navy security specialist. Of the 153 questions asked during two days' hearings, LeMay answered 78 in secret session. Despite all this, his public answers stirred up the thickest defense debate the Eisen hower Administration had yet seen. The key answers...
Astronomers are not building many ordinary optical telescopes these days, but electronic telescopes for catching radio waves from space are under construction in many countries. One of their advantages: they need not be built on clear-aired deserts or mountaintops. They can see the sky through the thickest clouds or even the smoky glare of Pittsburgh or Los Angeles...