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Word: thickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This bit is only the most obvious and incontrovertible in the thick docket of evidence we have gathered to document the nation's danger. Such so-called artists as Mr. Numan and his cohorts should be brought in for questioning at once, and probably jailed...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

Where they teach you how to be thick...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...with wistful pleasure: "It's great that we're both having good years, but I'd like to play on a contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going out and playing catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baffling Batters with Butterflies | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the mission was the failure to record atmospheric and surface temperatures on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Scientists have been particularly fascinated by Titan because it is slightly larger than the planet Mercury and has a thick atmosphere that may be similar to that of the primitive earth. Spectroscopic readings by earthbound astronomers showed, for example, that the atmosphere is rich in methane gas, which is believed to be one of the primary ingredients in the earth's early atmosphere. Given the right temperatures, scientists speculated, some form of life, or at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bonanza from a Ringed Planet | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...personnel representatives from each school meet twice a month to discuss University policy, recruitment strategies and to share tips, Wickenden says. "And there is a regular informal flow of complaint memos, bitches, whatever goes on throughout the different schools," Cantor says. To reduce confusion, the personnel office distributed a thick memo detailing all personnel rules to every department...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Nine to Five in Harvard's Halls | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

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