Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thin, icy air American flyers encounter as they wing their way through the stratosphere, the moist tropical heat of South Pacific jungles, the dry, numbing cold of our Aleutian outposts are all being reproduced in the University's unique Fatigue Laboratory. Here a group of doctors and scientists study the effects such diverse weather conditions will have upon the energies of fighting men. Special diets are prepared and new insulated or even electrically heated clothing developed to protect our armies, equipping them in advance against the rigors of hitherto unknown climates...
...Ionic columns of the south portico, the small circle of great and near great began to form: Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members, close Presidential advisers, and their wives. Promptly at noon, at the time prescribed by law, the short and simple fourth-term inauguration began. The Marine Band, thin and brassy in the cold winter air, burst into Hail to the Chief...
Giles and Cook began to practice up last November by knocking a hole in the wall at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, and escaping. Rearrested and lodged in the county jail at Council Bluffs, the pair produced a hacksaw, apparently from thin air, and began sawing a hole in the floor. They were searched and moved to separate cells in the escape-proof city jail across the street...
...filled with ragged effects. One group we saw trying to cross the river at Marcourt were slipping and sliding down the broken wooden girders of the dynamited bridges into the icy water and wading across. In this family there was a girl of ten crying bitterly. She wore a thin red cotton sweater with a thin cotton dress underneath and the Belgian approximation of bobby socks in scuffed shoes. Her mother, wearying under a heavy bundle, spoke sullenly and bitterly when we asked what was wrong. 'Elle a froid. C'est tout. Elle a froid...
Last week the New York Times received a dispatch from one of its ace staff members, written from a Manhattan hospital bed. It came from thin, thoughtful Brooks Atkinson, who chucked 20 years of play reviewing to become a war correspondent. During his two years in China for the Times, he watched a hungry nation fight a lean war, saw men killed, and lost his own health. Since returning to the U.S. two months ago, he has been in & out of hospitals, recovering first from jaundice, then from an operation...