Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these and a few others represented the cream of the nation's organized opposition, it was thin indeed. Many potent U.S. organizations went on the Committee's record in support of the Charter...
...sent to the widows of Callaghan and Scott. "Tell them," said he, "that it was their husbands' fighting guts that won me my four stars." Pre-Season Talk. When he sits in his high, steel chair on the flag bridge of a super-battleship, Halsey's wide, thin-lipped mouth with downturned corners looks tight enough. But he is a good talker in private conversation, he-man variety; his give-&-take with his top staff officers is free & easy...
...conquered capital was divided like a pie into four slices (see map). The Americans occupied about a quarter, mostly residential. The British held another quarter, partly residential, partly industrial. The French occupied only one borough, a thin wedge between the British and Russians. The Red Army slice was biggest-almost half the city, including its business heart. As far as the Elbe River, the Russians controlled all outlying regions through which the Allied supply routes...
...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...
...reasons for this damage was finally passed by censors: the gallant little ships (destroyers, destroyer escorts, LCSs) which formed the "picket line" 25 to 50 miles above the main anchorage had been severely mauled. By staying out front, the little ships with thin hulls had been able to warn the big transports and gunnery ships of approaching Jap planes. But they became the first Okinawan targets in the sights of the Jap suicide planes, . and they took the greatest concentrated damage, plus more than 1,000 casualties...