Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular poet than either his brother William Rose or his sister Laura, he was also a deft fiction writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster), nearly always wrote of the American scene. He was a tall, loose-limbed, shyly humorous, friendly man with a boyish look despite his mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This 100,000-word verse narrative sold over 180,000 copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book...
...home. To a man of his courage, Dutch stubbornness, and physical optimism this was not a matter of awful concern. He has never minded reaching a low point the year before an election. But on the day of his anniversary came strong strictures from a longtime thick-&-thin Roosevelt supporter, strictures to make even an optimist look to his political fences. Said the New Deal New York Post...
...woman started down the steps. The crowd was thick around her. The lights were dim. She missed her footing. To save her baby from a fall, she clutched at the man in front of her. He was old and fell forward and knocked two over. They went down clawing and pulled others with them. Humanity cascaded on the stairs...
...only $200,000 (some still unspent) only twelve investigators, 18 clerks and stenographers. But it was an obscure war plant that had never been visited by the committee. Its members had heard hundreds of witnesses, taken 4,000,000 words of testimony. With battle-royal impartiality, they had given thick ears and red faces to Cabinet members, war agency heads, generals, admirals, big businessmen, little businessmen, labor leaders...
Flight and Analysis. Analytical and well schooled, he liked better than flying the hours he spent putting down his observations on paper. When Eddie Allen sat down to analyze an aircraft, his findings crackled with equations and Greek symbols for the designers. His recorded tests of Fortresses were inch-thick volumes complete with carefully worked charts of each flight...