Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stimson. As an old World War I artilleryman, he commands the respect of combat generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included everything from handling administrative details of the Army training program to moving Japanese off the West Coast. Everyone who knows himp gives...
...explosions and fires followed, then came more bursts of smoke from warehouses and piers and over in the corner of the city huge flames and thick black smoke billowed into the air as if the oil dump was on fire. In a short space we counted over 20 individual fires...
...flowers). They also found seven-toed cats-and a lizard called Gecko which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil its way through. Incidentally, the percentage of shot-down pilots who managed to find their way back through the jungles is phenomenally high. They often must swim down rivers to the sea, risking crocodiles. If shot down over...
...white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while you are here." Officers have picked up, and like...
Officers' enthusiasms: the amazing antiquity of local sights, the British greener-than-green landscape, outsize flowers, quaint and lovely villages, thick woolen blankets, polite policemen. Their chief beefs: "It's not home," warm beer, lack of transportation, too much rain...