Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later British police swooped down on 250 Jewish terrorist suspects, whisked them out of Palestine by plane to an undisclosed destination. As the 27th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration* came & went last week, the air was thick with rumors and recriminations. It looked as if trouble-shooting Lord Gort would soon have plenty of trouble on his hands...
...least one virus has a round "head" and a "tail" about three times as long as the head is thick. Another has an oval head and a long tail...
...their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...
Bugs, Crabs, Volcanoes. On Guadalcanal they found the thick, heavy soil covered with high, knife-edged kangaroo grass, had to use bulldozers borrowed from the Seabees before they could even begin to plow. On Kolombangara, in the Solomons, they planted a former Jap airstrip of coral, already well stirred up by bombs. As they moved on again, they met new gardener's curses: land crabs, wild pigs, volcanic ground that was hardly arable, odd varieties of scavenging bugs. But by the time they reached the Marianas, they had met and licked almost all the problems of tropical farming...
Three Miles Down. With this device Ewing got several pictures at 2,700 fathoms (about three miles), but this camera and an improved second model were eventually lost, probably crushed by the great pressure. Since then Ewing has built a camera encased in thick pyrex glass, shaped like a giant test tube. All told, he has more than 1,000 pictures of the ocean floor, from Florida to far out in the Atlantic...