Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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York was part of a 17-man detail ordered to seek out the machine guns. The detail pursued two Germans into thick underbrush, suddenly burst into an open space-which happened to be occupied as a battalion headquarters of the enemy. Startled while lounging around after their breakfast, most of the Germans started to surrender. Then German machine guns started raking the area from only 30 yds. away. Of the Americans, only York and seven privates survived. While the seven privates scrambled into the brush, York, still surrounded by some prostrate, ready-to-give-up Germans, crouched...
...pearl and filthy mist, Fuji still soars beyond the freeway. And every week a dozen tank cars rumble through the pine grove of the Imperial Palace, hosing dust and soot from the drooping needles. The harbor itself, and the once limpid Sumida River where warrior-poets repaired, are now thick with wastes-both human and industrial. Yet there is scarcely a resident of Tokyo who could not compose a stately, sympathetic waka in the shade of his humble eaves...
...Houston last week, helicopters swooped low over bayous to lay thick mists of insecticide, and fire engines raced from block to block to spray chemicals in vacant lots. Citizens lined up to receive free handouts of bug-killing Malathion, and even kids at play carried spray guns to squirt at anything that flew...
...cripples to make do with a stump rather than to rely on an artificial arm or leg. Under the care of skilled therapists, infants spend an average 72 days as in-patients in the Springfield hospital, learning to use simple beginner prostheses-a hook for a hand, a short, thick stilt for a leg. Because they are naturally so eager to walk and to handle objects, infants usually accept the prostheses as parts of their own bodies...
...brush strokes on mulberry-bark paper. Their captions are often as eerily strange as their pictures, which confirmed the Japanese notion that all Westerners had enormous noses and were covered with hair. Cleanshaven Commodore Perry is shown as a slant-eyed demon, heavily mustached and bearded, with eyebrows as thick as bagels...