Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taxes. "We must expect taxation after the war to be heavier than it was before the war, but we do not intend to ... destroy initiative and enterprise...
...seven Quaker ambulance drivers, 19 Kachin, Karen and Burmese nurses, and an assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant rubbish grew-steel helmets, pink brassieres, whiskey bottles, tins of powder, notebooks, overcoats, rich Mandalay silks...
Staccato, Adagio. At the White House with a group of U.S. newspaper editors, Will White had stood in the front row to keep a sharp eye on the President: "He seemed to be gay, sure of himself, a bit festive at times, informative, indeed illuminating. . . . He has grown notably heavier since he came to the White House. . . . His growth has not been in paunch. It has been above his navel. His shoulders have widened. His neck and jowls have filled out. His head has taken a new form. . . . He is a vital person...
Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics in the armed forces wear religious medals. So do many Protestants and Jews. For wartime purposes, some medal manufacturers have given their wares a masculine touch by making them larger and heavier...
...first batches were ready for shipment to Europe when the Armistice was signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...