Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slugging Match. Key to the battle was Caen itself, a historic Norman town of primitive Gothic churches (see ART) and thick-walled stone buildings. The first British drive had carried to the town's outskirts; then it was hurled back. The battle settled down to a slugging match between the British Second Army and a German army, apparently the Seventh. Best break for the Allies was that the enemy never collected enough armor for a solid breakthrough attack. He committed his tanks piecemeal until four Panzer divisions were engaged in the fighting...
...thick-necked, barbaric, half-naked Prime Minister of Siam himself met her at the ship - but only to tell her that she was most unwelcome, that no arrange ments had been made for her care. Anna gritted her teeth, stayed...
...Java giants, Weidenreich thinks, were not freaks. Taking a fresh look at the thick-boned fossils of such other primitive human beings as Heidelberg Man, Weidenreich now believes that "gigantism and massiveness may have been a general or at least a widespread character of early mankind...
...bulky German in a black steel helmet loomed above our trench, pointed his submachine gun at us and yelled "Hända hoch, heraus-Hands up, get out." Pouring out blasphemies, an officer with bulging eyes and thick lips searched us for guns, took away our papers and hit Talbot for not raising his injured right arm high enough. With a curse he threw my ten-dollar bills to the ground; I picked them up and put them back in my pocket. Then he pulled two photographs out of his speckled parachute dress and asked: "Do you know who this...
...went Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the old royalist who had held on through thick & thin until he reached Rome. In as Premier, Minister of War and Minister of Interior went white-haired Ivanoe Bonomi. His Cabinet, carefully balanced between North & South, included representatives of all six parties, four leaders of the Roman underground...