Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hours later a rescue plane spotted them. Colonel Don Fliekinger, flight surgeon and holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, saw a message on the ground spelled out with parachute cloth: "Send medical man with rescue party." Landing was impossible in the thick jungle. He and two soldiers carrying medical supplies parachuted down...
...other piers, bristled thick along the shores, ships were loading, cargo booms swinging. Foodstuffs in great hills of cases, gasoline in drums, steel landing mats for foreign airfields, rails, boxes of mystery identified only by code words-all in ordered progression, heavy stuff on the bottom, to bring the ships "full and down...
Later, in the oak-paneled lobby of the House, thick with smoke and members, Captain Cunningham-Reid blockaded Commander Locker-Lampson against the wall and shouted: "I want to know whether or not you are going to continue making these personal attacks on me. I have no objection to your attacking in the ordinary Parliamentary way, but I object to these dirty underhand personalities...
...that glory the ashes were already thick. The dead face of more than one rival might flood by in Benito Mussolini's remembrance: Giacomo Matteotti, the murdered Socialist who defied castor oil and clubs; Italo Balbo, cut down when he grew too popular in the Fascist State. Then there was the dead face of his son, Bruno, a casualty of the war the father had glorified. Then the dead faces of those hundreds of thousands of men lost with the empire in Africa, the dead and fear-racked faces of millions of civilians fleeing their bombed homes...
...Tennyson committee's first skeleton-simple, material-&-labor-saving Utility Furniture was on sale: 45 designs of 17 essential pieces. Wood was used only for legs, struts and supports. Metal was allowed only for bedsprings. All flat surfaces were made of a compressed wood fiber ⅛ inch thick called hardboard...