Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, placid Hudson, the thin February sun warmed the riverbend known for three centuries as Long Reach. The wind of the thaw, mild and clean-smelling, searched through the ancient maples and the baby spruce over the 1,200 acres...
Over southeast England civilians were puzzled by long thin strips of paperbacked, shiny foil, which fell from German planes and twisted slowly earthward. Reportedly tin foil, first dropped by the British on European raids, embarrasses, plays hob with radar readings and night fighters' detection devices. The British have a name for the strips: "flutterers...
There was not much room in the crowded, pencil-thin 6-25 to lay the wounded man down. There was less room to mix the dried, tan-colored plasma with distilled water, to set' up the bottle and insert the rubber tube in the wounded man's arm. But Co-Pilot August Mirzaoff and Engineer R. V. Smith Jr. remembered their lessons. Slowly life began to return to Doyle's deathly-pale face. By the time the 6-25 reached a base he was much stronger, was pronounced a sure shot for recovery...
...most of the wars between 1776 and 1941 were land wars or sea wars. World War I was quite definitely both, but mostly landlocked. Peace-minded Congresses (and most U.S. citizens) thought wishfully that the Navy could insure the U.S. against war. The "bluewater" U.S. Navy hoarded its thin appropriations for its armored warships, which it planned would bombard not enemy beaches but enemy warships, as in the Battle of Jutland. The Marines, always conscious of their traditional role, got nothing when they tried to get funds for the small landing boats which are the key to beachhead operations...
...these demands stack up to more food than U.S. farmers can produce. They are short of labor, of machinery, of fertilizers. They are threatened with a breakdown of highway transportation. Most farm trucks are overage, tires are worn thin, replacements hard...