Word: peakedness
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Descent to Hell. Showers splattered the windshields when the ship was over halfway across the China Sea. At 500 ft. the sea was completely blotted out. In the thick weather cigarets lost their taste. That night, eerie, peaked islands rose up at them out of the mist. They were flying...
Behind the fleeing Germans and Italians was a littered trail: ledgers, military manuals, permits for furloughs, letters from home; tins of Danish hams, Norwegian herring, Dutch sausages, French wines, Munich beer; trumpets, tubas, drums (to be used in Rommel's triumphal procession into Alexandria) ; women's underwear, silk...
Bread is no longer slow poison. This momentous reversal of the teachings of U.S. dieticians has been made by Columbia's Professor Henry Clapp Sherman, dean of U.S. nutritionists, who for years has warred against bread as the No. 1 staple of the American diet. In countless articles on...
Inhabitants of the hall peaked shyly from doorways as the microphone was brought into the building, and then, as they recognized fellow-female "Kilte" McGrath, Radcliffe '42, opened up and answered questions designed to introduce the species in its own habitat to the other half.
Swakopmund. "Its buildings might have been lifted bodily from any small north German seaside town: its hotels-the Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are...