Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Cover. We were in a thin grove of palm trees, on the very bank of the wadi. Among these few trees were crowded a dozen or more Valentine tanks. We scampered out of the carrier and crawled under a tank. My companions under the tank with me, in the fashion of British and American soldiers, began gibing at each other and at the situation...
Under the open sky in the bright glare of the moon the thin column of soldiers advancing with the slow step of a funeral procession appeared pitifully small. As they went with dead, plodding steps by me and up and out of sight over the slope, I thought that in the final analysis it is not planes, nor tanks, nor guns that bring victory in battle, but the infantry that go forward and drive the enemy from their positions and open a way for the rest of the army to follow over their bodies...
...Dektred is a new Goodyear nonskid flooring material for ships. A thick liquid, it may be sprayed or troweled on steel, wood or concrete, weighs little in the thin coating (1/32 in.) needed. Dektred is unimpaired by 50°-below-zero cold, softens but slightly in 160° heat, resists gasoline, oil, soap, salt water...
Unless we're corrected again before thin goes to press, here's the "straight dope" on mid-semester grades. We had begun this column with "Correction, Please," but we took it back, because we were right the first time. Cumulative mid-semester grades will be made up and posted for all courses by April 10. These grades will serve to tell each midshipman what his academic performance has been to date. They will take into consideration the two hour quiz, all other written papers and reports, class recitations, plus the instructor's judgment of individual aptitude, which, in fact...
...Thin-lipped, five-starred General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commander in Syria and Lebanon, was the preconference intermediary. Catroux loves France, Siamese cats, fancy bodyguards. He admires De Gaulle, is a brilliant conversationalist and colonial administrator. He was expected this week in Algiers to start early negotiations with Giraud. It was also expected that he might wind up later with a high administrative post, possibly succeeding stubborn Charles Noguès, Resident General of French Morocco. If Giraud and De Gaulle get together, then true progress toward French unity will have been made...