Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif, since 1952. He is known for his hawkish views on weapons development, including the ABM. And he is known for his ability to put down questioners, other scientists, youth, doves-in short, anyone he disagrees with-in a booming, angry voice and thick Hungarian accent undimmed by 25 years of U. S. residency...
PepsiCo spent $25 million to preserve the bucolic effect. Business suits seem oddly out of place amid the meadows and groves. Thick stands of trees hide the 1,200 employees' cars from sight. The headquarters building itself is as low and lavish as a latter-day château. It is really seven separate buildings, linked at corners and grouped around a formal central courtyard...
...their former slaves live together on Harbour Island. On Spanish Wells the blacks are deported at 5 p.m. Five family names embrace the whites of these islands. The inbreeding is so ancient that they all look alike; thin, spindly, with glassy, blue eyes, crooked jaws, bony wrists and thick knuckles. The blacks are inbred to a lesser extent as they come and go more with the outer islands. Nevertheless, two out of four blacks share the same surname...
Indeed, so thick are the 1972 contenders in the Senate that their maneuvering for the limelight could impede the upper chamber's work. Over in the House, Ohio Republican Clarence...
...floral path to prosperity has been thick with thorns. In Little Rock, one 17-year-old girl was busted for blocking a street. Some florists near Dallas, irked that Scott and Campbell were undercutting them by selling carnations at $2.50 a dozen, threatened to boycott merchants who allowed flower children to operate in front of their stores...