Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier Maclean understood the relationship of politics and warfare. He put down what he had observed about Tito in a report that landed, fat, thick, crammed with a story that even yet waits to be published, on the desk of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. That report, and Britain's need for any fighting ally, convinced Downing Street that its warm smile for Peter's exiled Government, and its cold shoulder toward Tito, would have to be reversed...
...million-volt tube shows up a flaw only .01 inch thick as a clear shadow, even through 16 inches of steel. In penetrating thick steel, the tube is more effective in one hour's exposure than a one-million-volt tube would be in a week, or a half-million-volt tube in an exposure of 500 years...
...TIME, Dec. 14, 1942), to focus the electron beam in the tube on a bull's-eye only .01 inch in diameter, instead of the usual quarter-inch focal spot. Thus the X rays emerge in a sharp beam and produce well-defined shadows even after passage through thick steel...
...chemical plants. Stockholm's Aftontidningen (Evening News) reported details: there were more casualties from the gas than from the bombs. A gas alarm was sounded in Germany for the first time. Darmstadt's population was told that Americans had dropped gas bombs. Several days later, when a thick sulphurous cloud still hovered over the city, the Germans had to retract this story...
Since TIME and LIFE Correspondent Jack Belden (Retreat with Stilwell) saw his first battle outside Peiping in 1937, he has reported war in Burma, India, North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, been wounded at Salerno, recovered to get in the thick of the current European invasion. Still Time to Die is mostly expert, on-the-spot description of the battles he has seen. But it rises a notch above other able war reporting through Correspondent Belden's provocative summing up of what he has learned in his seven war-filled years. Some of the prime lessons...