Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neither the government nor the papers had yet admitted the true extent of the Israeli advances on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Apparently oblivious to the Israeli troops less than 60 miles away, Cairenes continued to crowd the cafes of New Street, where men sat sipping thick coffee and intently playing chess and backgammon. Worshipers gathered at the mosque of Zeinab for noon prayers. Peddlers, as always, hawked their roses on the streets...
...change. In order to be accepted as an intellectual equal, Southern women must learn to enunciate as quickly and sharply as their Northern counterparts. Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying the bantering aren't so kind. As a Confederate compatriot of mine remarked during our freshmen week, "As soon as I started talkin' I felt funny. It was at the Union and every...
Epstein, who said he saw the robbery from the window of his room in Adams House, reported that the thieves scaled the outside of the four story building, sawed through a thick copper stem, and lowered the bird to the waiting...
...reserve unit was in place at El Qantara, but it was unable to break through Egyptian lines to reach the bigger force it was assigned to support. Halevy later reported to TIME: "We were fighting in the area opposite Ismailia and the Firdan ridge. The Egyptian artillery was thick. Our tanks picked up casualties and took them along as we advanced because there was no immediate way the men could be evacuated." The Egyptians, he noted, "were fighting well, not running away. Our tactic the first two days was, as usual, to move forward, move forward. But as we advanced...
...embroidered to serve as wall hangings between camping trips. Triangular wool pieces can be spread out as floor covering or piled up as low seats. A lamp inflates like a balloon. A combination writing table and bulletin board can be folded down to a rectangle only three inches thick. There are dining-room sets that collapse into practically nothing, a mini-kitchen that is housed inside a unit the size of a rolling bar and even an "environmental bower," a kind of cocoon that can be set up in any room to provide quiet and privacy. There, presumably...