Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound up with a lurching thud against the far side of a deep ditch, just short of the highway. No one shouted or said a word. With thick, fumbling fingers we unlatched the safety belts. General Lee slumped forward, dazed and winded. It was his luck to be the only one knocked out. Most of our passengers scrambled out into the battle, left one officer and me to drag wiry, 48-year-old General Lee out on to the ground. A young paratrooper came by, stared in awe at the wreck, then laughed and said: "Jeez! You must have guts...
...name on a list a month or two before entering a hospital to reserve a place on the 'table.' An operation means 15 to 20 days being waited on in comfortable surroundings. . . . The actual operation is much more easily performed as there are no thick layers of fat for the surgeon's knife to hew through...
...airfields of the R.A.F.'s big night bombers. There, too, the pilots and crews were killing time in barracks and canteens, while outside the big, black Stirlings and Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes, the long summer twilight never ended: the bombers flying on night missions now would fly by daylight when they reached that height...
...seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden clothes, they were given thick, white blankets stamped U.S.N. Soon mess stewards were passing hot coffee to Americans and Germans alike...
What Enterprise has been up to this spring is still a secret. But as one of her former flyers explained: "You can certainly say this for the Old Lady, whenever anything's happening in this war she's there and in the thick...