Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to tell whether he is utterly exhausted or just doesn't give a damn. "I have no charisma," he groans. Yet he does, despite all that nonchalance. Heavy sideburns halfway down his face, a budding second chin that gives him a self-indulgent look, virile, thick, dark eyebrows and steady dark eyes, a calm voice-is there restrained passion underneath, or despair? So like McCarthy. To the kids he says the right things, he sounds straight, no shucking here, no bull...
...mothers with arms full of babies, pots, pans and blankets. The 4,000-ton LST soon became a teeming refugee city of 2,000, a squalid campground with children everywhere and the smells of densely packed human life filling the air. Blankets and wicker mats were tied to a thick cable stretched across the main deck, making a city of half shelters. It all fell apart in the first breeze, but the Vietnamese carefully set about tying the shelters together again, just as they were reworking the fabric of their lives now that war had come to Cambodia...
...herbicides have saved many, many lives," says a Pentagon official. Defoliation removes the thick canopy of Viet Nam's jungle and thus exposes enemy troop movements. Sprayed along roadsides and waterways, defoliants reduce the possibility of ambushes. Treatment of farm land in certain areas denies the enemy food...
...pattern of the work is still puzzling. You can't escape feeling that about four group of editors worked in strict isolation on different portions of the Yearbook, and then slipped their work secretly to the printer, who gave the whole volume the only unity it can claim its thick red binder...
...simple magnifying glass, focusing the sun's rays, can scorch a piece of wood or set a scrap of paper on fire. Solar radiation can also be concentrated on a much more awesome scale. It can burn a hole through thick steel plate, for example, or simulate the thermal shock of a nuclear blast. It can, that is, with the aid of a super reflector of the sort that has been set up by French scientists high in the Pyrenees. Ten years in the building, the world's largest solar furnace is a complex of nearly...