Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hour after hour, from noon when Stalin reached his office until early dawn when he retired to his apartment on the same floor, there were deferential callers. They found him looking tired. His thick hair and bushy mustache were greying. His belly was fattening under his khaki shirt. But usually his dark eyes flashed at his callers. He spoke to them brusquely, toughly, brandishing his arms...
...going to bed it is necessary to lay by one's side, ready for instant use, an obscured torch, thick clothing, heavy boots and oilskins.... After the first thrill of excitement wears off, fire-watching on the roof for four hours in the early hours of a mid-winter morning is cold work. What did I say! (one word censored) we are precipitated from sleep by the repeated wails of the sirens. The heart beats a little faster and one feels tired and fed up, stumbling into ones clothes in the dark, cursing the fact that tomorrow's work will...
...grace of God the Greer was not hit. Had a torpedo struck her fragile steel plates (just thick enough to keep fish out) the Greer, commanded by Lieut. Commander Laurence H. Frost, might have been sunk without a trace. But already she was racing up the torpedo tracks, her mechanical ears searching for the submarine. When they indicated that the U-boat was directly underneath, depth charges began to drop overboard from the Greer. The U.S. Navy was engaged...
...some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...