Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chickering must have made quite a target these past few weeks, for he is about the biggest correspondent between Attu and Port Moresby (210 pounds, six feet four) and he has been in the thick of the fighting ever since he went back to the Pacific front for us early in September...
...even see an enemy ten feet away at times. The jungle is so thick that we don't dare use mortars or grenades because we can't loft them out of our own territory...
Personally kind but professionally exacting, Chris ceaselessly pinpricks his "Beaver's Eaglets" into working harder. He does not hesitate to fire them for repeated blunders, is just as quick to spread praise on thick for jobs well done. His men swear by him, call him Chris, like the way he hobnobs with the greenest beginners in off-hours, buying drink for drink with them...
...time Peter Slavek escapes from the Nazis, the German-Russian Pact has been signed. He has become an ex-Communist. He lands in a foreign country where exiles are thick as thieves, all awaiting passage to the U.S. The Communists, ex-Communists, Nazis, Jewish refugees work out Europe's problems in miniature, and sometimes in unconscious mimicry...
...Boeing still needs some 5,000 to 6,000 workers, but job-seekers simply poured in too fast for assimilation until certain job classifications are built up and new production schedules go into effect. Thus Boeing was in the excruciating position of a starving, toothless man being offered a thick steak...