Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Pétain? At 56 Manstein is one of the youngest of Germany's field marshals. He has white hair, tired eyes, a beaked nose. Myopic, he wears the traditional Junker monocle. He dresses elegantly, sports a single decoration-the Iron Cross. He smokes thick cigars. In brief moments of leisure he plays the piano well, prefers solemn, well-ordered Bach to lighter, later composers. His hands are thin, well-manicured, almost feminine; his voice is quiet...
...service and supply the A.A.F., Air Serviee Command operates 300 warehouses containing half a million different items, ships out nine tons of aviation supplies (not including food) a month per pilot overseas. A.S.C.'s enterprises encircle the globe, are frequently masterpieces of improvisation. In New Guinea the "Thick & Thin Lumber Co.," created from a wrecked plane, two wrecked trucks, a worn-out tractor and machinery from an abandoned copper mine, turned out finished lumber by board-foot thousands...
...bellhop," "the rubberstamp." He had drawn, for the old Life and many other magazines. He had done simple, sad, angry drawings like the one in which the little boy and girl of the slums find their own words for a beautiful night: "Chee Annie, look at the stars, thick as bedbugs...
...Bari itself was an incidental target. The bombers which had somehow slipped through the screen of overwhelming Allied air superiority headed for the harbor, studded with ships of a newly arrived convoy. Two ammunition vessels blew up, setting their neighbors ablaze. From other bombed ships thick, pitch-black smoke began to wallow towards the blue sky. Here and there ack-ack guns barked angrily-too late...
...Christmas season in Moscow was the merriest since 1916-the last Christmas of the old war and the old order. It was also the most solemn. The thick snow, which makes every Moscow Christmas a white Christmas, lay heavy over a capital that is the heart of a nation. And that heart, in Russia's third wartime Christmas, beat strong and steadily with an enormous pride of achievement. It was as if the whole Russian nation, watching for the appearance of the first evening star that (according to the Russian Orthodox custom) breaks the absolute pre-Christmas fast, looked...