Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the hot plain, through dust clouds so thick that headlights were turned on in the daytime, Marshal Rodion Mal-inovsky's men chased German remnants toward the Iron Gate, where the Danube cuts through the Transylvanian Alps. Other Malinovsky forces swarmed to the Danube and the Bulgarian border on a 65-mile front. General Feodor Tolbukhin's army group reached southern Dobruja below Constanta. This territory has been Rumania's (disregarding Hitler's 1940 rearrangements) since 1913; Russia began throwing its weight around in the Balkans by referring to it, in the Moscow communique...
...there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants, as many as 250 at a time. Kudriavtsev was explaining: "The gas affects all parts of the organism. It is quicker when the body is warm, washed...
...World War I seaman and pilot - he was a lieutenant (j.g.) when discharged - failed to loosen his Long Island roots. He has a small-towner's taste in clothes, usually wears blue-striped shirts and striped ties. He is particular only about his shoes, which must have thick, crepe-rubber soles (he bought ten pairs just before World War II began). These bulky sneakers are easy on his feet as he shambles over the acres of plant floors...
...fact, TIME men are all over France these days. In the central sector alone, Bill White is heading for Germany with the British armies . . . Jack Belden, fully recovered from the wound he got at Salerno, is back in the thick of things with General Patton's men . . . and Chief Military Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker, Photographer Bob Capa and Correspondent Bill Walton are at the new headquarters TIME has set up at the Hotel Scribe in Paris ("Wert" and Capa jeeped into the city right behind General Leclerc's armored car-believe they were the first Americans to were reach...
Along a 6,000-mile arc of the Japs' Pacific defenses the Allied blows fell thick & fast. They flared like lightning strokes from Sumatra, where the Allied Eastern Fleet beat up Padang and Emmahaven, to Halmahera, where the enemy feared General MacArthur's next amphibious stroke, to the Kurils, northeast of Japan...