Word: heft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came, many a Cub-sized aviation trade paper had grown to B-29 proportions; manufacturers with plenty of orders for planes, engines and accessories were spending fat chunks of their profits for advertising. Some journals averaged more than 200 advertising pages a month, sent off volumes of 500-page heft to be lugged about by sweating postmen. Then came peace, and a fall-off in horsepower...
...Seven Blocks of Gothic (reduced to six after Morro left the game) relied almost solely on heft. With their green-light, full-speed-ahead charge, they would have been playing right into the hands of Harlow's Seven Pillars of Purity with their deadly mousetraps...
...strategy which this doctrine calls for is that the Nazis must be driven from the seas, as well as denied possession of land bases with seapower implications -e.g., Dakar, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, etc. An obvious corollary is that when the U.S. begins to swing its military heft, the first swinging will be done by the Navy and air arms. As long as the Commander in Chief holds to his fundamental doctrine and does not go beyond it (for example, into a continental land offensive) the U.S. Army's role will be subsidiary...
Once out of the hangar, the B-19's wings seemed to grow. She is 212 ft. in wingspan: from tip to tip her span equals the height of a 20-story building. On the runway, Douglas' flying battleship began to show the heft of her weight: 80 tons fully loaded (twice the weight of Pan American's big Boeing Clippers). Her left wheel found a soft spot in the macadam, sank 18 inches. She was rolled out, finally tied down not far from 28th Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through...
...Senate for confirmation last week Franklin Roosevelt sent two sets of nominations to increase the fighting and administrative heft of the U.S. Army...