Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their respective positions. At the backfield posts, Bill Jenkins, Ken Brown, and Carl Lindblad were the stars; while Paul Garrity and Roscoe Hankin, both experienced performers and contenders for the running spot, were prevented by Navy obligations from being at some of the workouts but are still in the thick of the fight for positions in the backfield...
Said a Frenchman: "Vichy? It is a basket of crabs." Petty officials spent their time compiling dossiers on each other, hoping that they could save themselves by betraying their colleagues to the liberating Allies. One thick accusation by X against Y reached London on the same day as a bulgy dossier by Y against...
Joseph Stalin, onetime choirboy and theological student, now an apostate, created the Council for Religious Affairs last month. Last week in a pastel-green-walled suite, still smelling of paint and plaster, thick-lipped, bespectacled Ivan Vassilyvich Poliansky was busy considering and passing on the requests of all Soviet churches except the Russian Orthodox.* At work on the floor below was Georgi Gregorievich Karpov, chief liaison agent between the government and the Orthodox Church...
Well, after I'd got all this sorted out I came back to see about living in our old place myself. Every time there was a new bomb, and they were thick on our district, we had to shoot away from the walls, since any heavy concussion would have brought them down. So I talked it over with the blokes next door and we began to wonder about the houses across the road-they still had roofs and the floors weren't sagging. The tenants had buggered off somewhere when the flying bombs started coming down. We went...
...frost woke me and my two Partisan guards at dawn on May 26 in the primeval forest of the Yavorusha Mountain. We climbed the ankle-deep carpet of dry leaves up to the top, and all around us the thick highland woods teemed with refugees and lowing cattle...