Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three flyers climbed stiffly down from a C-47 transport at Chungking's Seven Dragon Slope airdrome. They were thin, and their faces were old and unsmiling. To fresh young U.S. flyers on the field, they seemed like apparitions from another war, another age. They had only now ended a flight begun from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet three years, four months and one week before. They were some of Jimmy Doolittle's men who had bombed Japan...
...Army & Navy last week revealed another military secret: body armor-the first to be widely worn by foot soldiers since the Middle Ages-saved the life of many a World War II marine, soldier and sailor. Made of thin sheets of glass fiber cloth impregnated and bonded with resin, the new plastic armor proved tougher, pound for pound, than steel. Though not proof against a direct bullet hit, it was effective against shrapnel, especially useful in amphibious invasions...
Professor Ulich asserted that America has a great contribution to make toward a World Education Organization. But he warned, "we, and the other western nations, must not seek to impose an alien system of education, with a thin intellectual veneer, upon the more backward countries of the world." He emphasized that this applies to the reeducation of Nazi Germany...
...Engineer District" was the purposely deceptive name given the project. Its centers were full of G-men. Its couriers were Army officers, brief cases chained to their wrists. It rated highest priorities for men and materials. From dozens of universities and industrial plants physicists, chemists and mathematicians vanished into thin air; the Manhattan District had snatched them...
Long lines of tankers once fanned out from Aruba to Europe, the U.S. and Pacific. Now, almost all of Aruba's and South America's refinery production of 750,000 barrels of oil a day is going through the Panama Canal to the Pacific; only a thin stream of crude is going north...