Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army General Markian Popov, the captor of Karachev. The Red Command regards this tall, thin, long-necked man with a schoolboy's face as one of the most daring of its young generals; it has jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov...
...second time in a little more than a week the British were over the city. This time Nazi interceptors with searchlights in their noses had climbed above them, circling through the high thin air, dropping brilliantly burning white flares. A British pilot steered his Halifax toward his target, watching the flares float down around him in parallel lanes. His navigator counted 50 flares "going down even more slowly than a leaf falls." In the eerily lighted sky world, half a thousand Nazi fighters fell on the attackers. Some of the British were sent plunging into the city's streets...
Bracketed, the PT weaved desperately to escape, then came to a grinding halt on the cruel edge of a coral reef which held the thin mahogany plywood hull like a bear trap. Jap fire was creeping closer. The youthful skipper ordered men to destroy secret devices and papers, gave the word to abandon ship. One enlisted man was killed on deck; the others swam through shark-infested waters to safety aboard another U.S. vessel...
...high, thin, wispy cirrus cloud and its relatives, the milky cirrostratus and ripply cirrocumulus, are ideal cover for high-altitude bombers: they provide a one-way screen that allows an airman to see his target but hides him from planes or groundlings below...
...Clouds as weather forecasters: thin cirrus clouds or altocumuli mean fair weather for at least 24 hours ("the higher the clouds, the finer the weather"); thickening cirrus and layers of clouds moving in different directions mean rain; big cumulus clouds in the morning mean thunder showers in the afternoon; persisting fog means rain by afternoon or night...