Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greying, heavier, and a meticulous dresser. There was always a knifeedged crease in his trousers and his shoes glittered. He said: "I feel spiffy when I'm dressed just right." He carried a half-dozen clean handkerchiefs and sprayed himself with eau de cologne...
...Russians seized Vormsi and Muhu by amphibious assault, landed marines and tanks. Berlin claimed that German warships had tangled with the Red Fleet, now freely ranging the eastern Baltic, and had sunk many landing barges-but there was no claim of dislodging the Reds from their island footholds. Heavier naval action in the Baltic seemed likely soon...
...other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply lines as it shortens Japan's; 3) stock piles of vital raw materials, high enough to last up to two years; 4) Allied war weariness, and revulsion against casualties heavier than in Europe...
Archie McConnell, Adams House janitor, found the storm "of gale proportions," but not much heavier than the average "north or south-easter." The only damage was several broken windows in the Randolph section. Accounting for the fact that the hurricane did not reach the proportions of the 1938 tempest, when traffic was halted for several days, McConnell declared sagely that "it went...
...town in more and more strength, and that if they chose to attack we'd be in trouble. Some medium tanks, attached to his unit but not in his command, were, in his perhaps biased opinion, being hesitant about coming on up the road and engaging heavier German tanks. Furthermore, said the captain, the little infantry he had attached to the troop, and the little more in position just outside the town, were not enough to keep the Germans back...