Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found any shot-down plane; no one reported any bombed-out home. Rumors were thick as flack: that the Army had shot its 1,430 rounds at an escaped barrage balloon; that enemy planes had been reconnoitering; that the target was a lone U.S. plane trying to land; that the Army was staging a show to wake people up. The Western Defense Command said: "Unidentified aircraft were reported in the Los Angeles area...
...thick as the rumors, as commonplace to the men as their daily rations, were the heroes among them and the stories of their exploits...
...attentive as ever. They padded softly, bearing long cool drinks to the linened Dutch civilians, the officers in Dutch, U.S. and British khaki, white and blue. In the crowded, varied city itself, tropic life went on: in the shops of Chinese, impenetrable behind their prayerful squints; in murky canals thick with scum and bathing Indonesians; in streets hot and sunny between the frequent rains, pocked here & there by a Japanese bomb, but still busy with the traffic of a colonial capital...
From Batavia on the west to Surabaya on the east, Java's excellent highways were thick with armored cars, with the harnessed and ever-useful water buffalo, with pedestrian natives in economically cut trousers and casual skirts. At Bandung, the Army's mountain headquarters and fortress, patrolling aircraft droned in and away...
...Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges. Behind them 200 newspapermen, using Darlan police guards as copy boys, waited to send the story of France's shame to the world's far corners...