Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter clothing must be light as well as warm. Best combination for cold weather: cotton and wool arranged in layers. The cotton breaks the wind; the wool insulates, absorbs perspiration. The Russians, who know their winter steppes, wear warmer and lighter clothes than the Germans...
Funerals became strangely frequent. Always first in processions was Pierre Guichard, dignified beadle of the Cérilly church. Next, the cure, sprinkling holy water with an energy suggesting joyous abandon. Behind him came the coffin bearers, their spirits lighter than the heavy box they bore. Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness...
...middle-sized blimps, off Lakehurst, N.J., looked as deceptively innocent as exploding cigars. They made up the first lighter-than-air squadron the Navy has sent aloft in World War II. Each of them was manned by a crew of eight and carried machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. Their job: to hunt enemy submarines and mines in U.S. coastal waters...
Thrice-burnt by its disastrous experiences with the Shenandoah, .the Macon, the Akron, the U.S. Navy has dreaded lighter-than-air craft. Nevertheless, a little group of enthusiasts, led by Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, plugged persistently for a whopping airship program. The new blimp squadrons are the first reward of their efforts...
Donald hitchhiked back home, went on a diet of fruit juice and soup, pounded his muscles, chopped down trees, sweated in a steam bath. Last week, 14 Ib. lighter, he took the Marine Corps oath-then rushed to a hamburger stand...