Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that most reporters dream about. Lee hopes some day to roll into Nanking with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, into Manila with General Douglas MacArthur, and down the main street of Tokyo with Admiral Halsey and his sailors, Major General Vandegrift and his marines, under a blanket of U.S. planes "so thick that they hide the rising...
...wonder with the new-gained knowledge, as the tears vanish. But when Brown, Estabrook, and Saroyan use their same technique on the philosophies of death and immortality, the effect is not the same. Saroyan's message, as simple as the child Ulysses, can't be spread on with a thick butter knife; the film emerges a combination of a House sandwich and a snack in Hamburg Heaven. It's worth seeing, if only for the better scenes...
...Corps had, on the flanks of the road leading to Mateur, some of the toughest terrain in Tunisia. The rubble slopes of the hills were covered now with thick green grass. The enemy here was well emplaced. And yet in a single day U.S. troops pushed forward five miles and stayed forward. After the fourth day of attack, the Axis troops, apparently broken by constant shelling, pulled back their lines. U.S. troops moved within ten miles of Mateur...
China (Paramount) manages to make one of the most impressive races on earth seem like a corny subject. It stars recently drafted Alan Ladd and gazelle-eyed Loretta Young in as thick a glossary of cliches as may be collected currently from any U.S. screen. The film is ripe for the burlesque that the wandering team of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope might have given...
Lawn tennis, invented in England only two years before by a Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, was then played on an hourglass-shaped court with a sagging net and thick-framed rackets of almost as many shapes and sizes as there were players. Players served underhand, sedately lobbed the ball back & forth. In England, it was considered unsporting to hit a ball beyond an opponent's reach. But Dick Sears developed what he called "a mild form of volleying," took delight in tapping the ball "first to one side and then to the other, running my opponent all over...