Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of Longstreet's power, says Freeman, was "his incredible nervous control." A broad-shouldered man with cold grey-blue eyes and a thick beard, Longstreet once told another officer: "I never felt fatigue in my life." He kept discipline among his troops and clear understandings with his subordinates. A private grief, the death of three of his children, left him a somber man and a complete soldier...
...ornate Paz family crypt in Buenos Aires' comfortable La Recoleta cemetery, honors came thick last week to the late José Clemente Paz, founder of Argentina's La Prensa. The Argentine Government issued a special commemorative postage stamp. Nationwide collections were taken to erect a monument. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a laudatory cable, as did many another foreign notable. It was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Argentina's most famous journalist...
Vesuvius. Nazi planes in thick swarms rose to meet them. The greatest daylight air offensive thus far over the Continent was met by one of the greatest defensive waves of fighters. On Sept. 15, 1940, when some 400 Nazi planes attacked Britain, R.A.F. fighters knocked down 185 and turned a tide. This time there was another tide-turning...
...over his ample paunch and sighed with content. His Ballet Theatre had just opened Manhattan's annual ballet season at the Metropolitan Opera House. His Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...
Last week the Navy command lifted a corner of the censorship that has been as thick as the Aleutian fog bank. U.S. forces, said the Navy, had been entrenched on one of the Andreanof Islands since Sept. i. Which island was not disclosed, but any one of the Andreanofs (which are part of the Aleutians) is well within fighter range of the main Japanese base at Kiska...