Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From then on Bill was almost continuously in the thick of the fighting with one or another of our Armies-took his chances with our men at Cherbourg, Saint Lô, Avranches, Orleans, Nijmegen, Aachen, the Hürtgen Forest ("that was the nastiest fighting...
With bagpipes skirling, General Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadians followed the barrage into Germany. Said one private from Regina: "We're conquerors now, not just liberators." In flooded areas, the Canucks bustled from one "island" to another in amphibious vehicles. They braved the thick Reichswald, gained seven miles in three days, tore the guts out of the German 84th Division. At week's end they were fighting from house to house in Cleve, against German paratroops rushed north from Alsace. Cleve fell...
André Malraux, leftist French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope}, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the 1940 Battle of France, was still in the thick of it - leading his own 4,000-man F.F.I, army in the fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined...
...having ten rooms," the Jap officer had shouted. "Radies having one room. . . ." The Jap commandant even banned hand-holding ("He said such displays of affection offend the morals of his guards"). Food was scarce and nauseating. "The cereal in the dishpans was brown and shimmering on top from the thick layer of crawling weevils that covered it. ..." Under the taut, enervating pressures of the camp, the internees' characters changed, warped, withered and, in some cases, held firm. Talkative, irrepressible Dodie Morrison was hospitalized with hemorrhages, but her almost childish faith in her soldier husband sustained her courage...
Career of a Schoolmaster. Head of Duncan School was suave, thick-set William Callaway Duncan, 53, son of a onetime Georgia Senator. Educated at the University of Georgia, Columbia, Yale and Oxford, he made a name for himself! in 26 years (1914-40) as head of Irving Lower School in Tarrytown, N.Y., made many a prosperous acquaintance through a thriving summer camp which he started at Newport, Vt. in 1916. In 1940, with money left him by his aunt, he struck out for himself, opened an expensive school near New Milford, Conn. The building shortly burned down. Then he moved...