Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old gypsy named Mary Squires. But for all its ominous air, the house failed to match Elizabeth's description. The only room that could possibly have been her "empty loft" was thick with ancient, unbroken cobwebs. One window was boarded, but there was another not even latched. There were no footprints...
...also burning. The windows are blocked with heaps of books, and machine guns stick out between them. . . . Inside it is hot-fire is spreading nearer, floors are glowing with heat and about to collapse. . . . Across the street is the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Goring, protected by a thick stone wall. . . . The building is burning and we cannot enter it. The gigantic air-raid shelter is untouched...
...cestus in punch after armed punch on the slogging road across North Africa, in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. Black-haired, chunky, 34-year-old Colonel William Orlando Darby, who had organized the Rangers in Northern Ireland during the anxious summer of 1942, stayed with them through thick & thin...
...Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn...
...continuous flow of his creative activity.) " 'There are other things I'd like to show you; besides,' he continued, 'I don't care for working in the morning. I like to work in the afternoons, but best of all at night. You see these thick curtains' - and he touched the window curtains gently, 'they shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better: it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.' " 'What are these?' I asked, indicating a number of very small canvases standing...