Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, Red tankmen chipped ice off the treads and gun barrels. Their breath was cotton-thick in the chill air; their polushubki (half-coats) were stiff with frost. The cold had come late. But now, in some sectors, this was the harshest winter in a century...
...Pripet Marshes, the puncher was Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. For weeks, he had been massing white-painted tanks, artillery, ski troops, cavalry, aircraft. Great strength, he knew, was needed, for the terrain was cruel, the roads few, the enemy defenses thick...
...Nazis' secret weapon is a huge gun which fires massive air bombs (about 40 ft. long, 4 ft. thick), each one twice the length and thickness of a submarine's torpedo. Five or seven rocket installations in the tail keep the projectile going, outer rockets firing in pairs after a large central one has burned out. It is guided to its target by radio, and causes a tremendous explosion when it hits. The rocket gun even has a name: Urania...
Reaction came thick & fast: rabbinical students at Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion voiced "strongest indignation." Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's pro-Zionist monthly Opinion called the principles "nothing less than unbelievable . . . treasonable to the household of Israel." The Congress Weekly, organ of the pro-Zionist American Jewish Congress, accused the Houston congregation of composing "a set of 'Nürnberg laws' of their...
...mercury drops, layers of clothing are added inside the outer shell: extra shirts, trousers, underwear. The discovery by the Army Quartermaster Corps (which had few advantages in its youth) that separate layers of cloth are warmer than one extra-thick layer like an overcoat, is not new. Chinese coolies, for instance, have known for centuries that two 4-lb. coats are warmer than one 8-lb. coat...