Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narendra Mandal (Chamber of Princes) the two high-backed plush thrones (for the Viceroy and his wife) had been dusted off. The red velvet Victorian armchairs (for India's princes) were all in place. The heavy Mogul tapestries had been hung from the high marble walls. The thick red carpet had been duly swept. India's princely rulers, each entitled to his salute of guns, should soon stalk in, stiff with brocade and glittering with jewels for two days of genteel debates. Afterwards they would be entertained at a formal party by the Viceroy and Lady Wavell...
...like these two, their presence will have you in stitches. They pile in gags thick and fast and never let you stop laughing until their act goes off. In the same field as Olsen and Johnson is another bellylaugh - provoking trio, Willy, West, and McGinty, who do two explosive acts...
...seemed likely that the Germans were pulling troops out of the city under cover of the long nights and thick weather. Some were left behind, to fight for time. They depressed the muzzles of antiaircraft guns against the attackers, and fired on them with guns from crippled U.S. tanks. On the airfield there was a bitter battle from hangar to hangar, from room to room of the barracks...
...tropical rains pelted down, made the ground so slippery that to climb the slightest incline men had to plod up with "herringbone" ski technique, or haul themselves up by thick overhanging vines. Some U.S. units were fighting three or four days from their base; their supplies were brought in by human pack trains-soldiers and Filipino laborers...
From the Myitkyina station, recognizable only by untidy heaps of shrapnel-torn cars and scarred trees, the homesick locomotive man jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...