Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were hundreds of thousands of dossiers, each at least 18 inches thick and a foot square, including maps, plans, photographs and guidebooks, giving minute detail about every part of Britain. Even tourist picture post cards and newspaper photographs were included...
...intense cold. One tank leaked slightly, but it was repaired. After that the tanks performed a miracle of storage. The liquid they held, when vaporized would become 240,000,000 cubic feet of inflammable gas. One afternoon last week, a white, cloudlike stream squirted from one of them. A thick fog drifted up. Then the whole sky ignited, and men working in the open company yard crisped and died like moths...
...them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were fought by plan for days after the first brush with the enemy...
Their chief objectives were Miyako and Okinawa Islands, and the area was thick with bombers' targets. The planes sank an escort-type destroyer, four small submarines, 14 cargo ships, 25 smaller ships, 43 other vessels. Apparently the Mitscher-men had surprised the enemy: they destroyed 59 planes on the ground, shot 23 more...
Clothing. "Zoot" suits - the green-and-brown camouflaged apparitions worn early in the war - have been discarded by the Army (marines still wear them). Nowadays soldiers wear a two-piece jungle uniform made of green herringbone twill. Because medics insist, it is thick enough to keep out mosquitoes and leeches; because chemical-warfare officers insist, it is gasproofed. Result: a hot, heavy uniform which makes men sweat like stokers, fails to dry out overnight, often fails to give its alleged protection because men simply cannot abide being smothered while fighting for their lives...