Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stakes. At low tide, they were visible. On the beach itself were great tripods of steel rails, braced steel fences, all of them ingeniously mined. The demolition units went to work clearing paths while German shells fell among them and German machine gunners hidden in tunnels and six-foot-thick concrete pillboxes raked them. An assault engineer said: "We had to work with water up to our necks, some times higher. Then there were snipers. They were nipping...
...along Tokyo's streets, were waterlogged. Said the Tokyo press next day: "It was high time that sirens sounded again, because the majority of Tokyo's population had become indifferent to air danger and had neglected preparations. . . . Some of our citizens still seem to have rather thick skins. Let them wait until . . . they have to crawl on their bellies in water-filled trenches; they'll quickly drain them...
...Boston area for days had been thick with rumors of trouble: that a white boy had been killed by Negroes; that three Negro girls had beaten up a white school girl ; that a Negro had stolen a white boy's girl. As the column of "delegates" approached the Negroes, Cambridge police arrived. They seemed loth to intervene...
...time to marry beauteous Lady Margaret Diana Bingham; they have three children. A classic specimen of the English professional officer type, Alexander is self-contained, quiet, outwardly confident when the world shakes. He speaks German, French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick of the Italian fighting, his U.S. aide, Captain John Grimsby, was startled to hear a guttural German voice barking in the General's room. It was Alexander taking his German lesson from a phonograph...
Through Government buildings tramped thick-skulled Army officers. Argentines joked about their continual, puerile squabbles. But few appeared to care. Argentina, was so prosperous (through trade with the United Nations) that she hardly needed a government...