When Jack was a trucker riding up and down the California highways delivering goods for K-Mart, he always kept his head and drove steadily even when thick fog, known in California as tule fog made the journey treacherous.
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Morgan survived a tough chance on one when a thick edge would not stick in Kamran's gloves and Strauss departed with 47 needed when he missed a sweep at a quicker ball and was lbw.
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Ponting's painstaking innings of 20 from 73 deliveries was brought to a close soon after when a thick inside edge clattered into his stumps, much to the delight of the jubilant England fans.
The aircraft was flying to Inverness from Ulster when it crashed in thick mist.
When the nectarines are thick and pulpy, 7 to 8 minutes, remove from the heat and puree until smooth.
When the ice sheets were thick and advancing, more pebbles, stones, and dirty sediment would have been carried into the core by the moving ice.
The elegant six-foot 15-year-old from Hawaii found some difficult spots in the rough, but her power saved her on several occasions, although a fourth dropped shot came at the 16th when a wedge from the thick rye grass sank into more trouble short of the green.
Uthappa showed signs of frustration when he charged down the pitch to skew one off a thick edge, and came close to being run out when he took a second run and Smith took a fraction too long to take the bails off, following a fine throw from the boundary by Watts.
The Brazilian striker was soon in the thick of the action when he was fouled just outside the City penalty area by Richard Dunne.
Pires was soon in the thick of the action when he was involved in an altercation with Redknapp on the sidelines following a foul on the Frenchman.
The Obama campaign has stuck to the same message through thick and thin: when they were 20-plus points behind Mrs Clinton in the polls, and when they were racking up a succession of victories in February.
That proved only a brief break from the Van der Vaart show and he was soon in the the thick of it again when he tested Brad Friedel with a low shot that the keeper spilled and was fortunate to see fizz wide.
HSS' transducer is a 28-micron-thick plastic film that flutters when exposed to an electric field (because it is "piezoelectric").
When faced with a collection of quite thick, perhaps intimidating novels, Banville's is very accessible - easily readable and not too weighty.
It's on the banks of the Charles River, which she can see most of the year when the leaves aren't so thick on the trees outside her windows.
And when the staff brought out big, thick, gooey, homemade cookies during a break, I was already so far outside my circle of guilt that I ate three of them.
The IrisPen's small size is an advantage when working with irregularly shaped objects such as thick books.
It is just past midnight on Saturday morning when the cashier hands the two girls a thick, luminous green book.
Kahn started out in college as a botany major, but gave up when he saw the three-inch-thick textbooks filled with Latin names.
The 10.3mm thick body does feel slightly chunky when compared to it's all touch sibling the Z10, and downright brick-like next to a svelte beauty like the Galaxy S III, but its short stout shape will fit in your pocket and palm with equal ease.
Sehwag was again on hand when Zaheer Khan squared up Shah, induced a thick outside edge and reduced England to 17-2.
Yuvraj had a reprieve courtesy not of the fielders but umpire Nigel Llong, who somehow failed to detect a thick edge into Prior's gloves when the left-hander cut Panesar.
The left-hander hit three quick fours making Ntini opt to go around the wicket, and when a shorter delivery seamed away from Hayden a thick edge flew to captain Graeme Smith at first slip.
Mushfiqur Rahim revived the innings again by first lofting Tredwell for a sublime straight six, then backing away to cut through point for four, but was reprieved on 29 when Prior could not get his gloves to a thick edge that deviated appreciably.
Think about what this advancement has meant just in terms of access to the resources: When drilling into a hydrocarbon bearing formation 100 feet thick, vertical drilling would allow an operator to contact 100 feet of rock, which would limit your potential recovery to whatever oil or gas would flow into that length of pipe.
They seem to come thick and fast over the whole issue of when flags could be flown for instance, that resulted in legal challenge.
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Many of the worst problems will hit retailers, who in some countries will be in the thick of the January sales, the period when shops are busiest and the amount of money in circulation is largest (see article).
Indeed, the action pounds so thick and fast, it's a relief when hard-working composer John Powell grants us a brief reprieve for a brutal hand-to-hand scrap scored only to thumps, bumps and grunts.
When was the last time you were really bothered about exactly how thick or heavy your phone was, so long as it fit in your hand and pocket without making you strain or your clothes sag?
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And when it's cold outside, few things sound as appealing as a hearty onion soup with a layer of baked Gruyere so thick it almost requires a fork and knife, especially when it's part of a prix fixe lunch.
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