Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
Adolf Hitler remained strangely hidden, strangely silent. Berlin suggested that he was resting after arduous labors on the Russian front. On the thin shoulders of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels fell the job of exhorting the German people: "Are you willing to continue the war with wild determination, unshaken by all vicissitudes of fate...
Chen Pu-lei, The Gissimo's thin secretary, is probably closest to him of all. Chen, 53, from the Gissimo's home province (Chekiang), was a distinguished journalist until he became Chiang's secretary in 1935. His importance rests in his determining who sees Chiang and what Chiang sees...
Virtually unnoticed by the U.S. press last week was the arrival in Washington of tall, thin Colonel Juan Beigbeder, emissary of Franco's Government in Spain. Ex-Foreign Minister, ex-High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco and present member of Franco's General Staff, he was welcomed by the State Department as a United Nations friend and an indicator that Fascist General Franco now expects a United Nations victory. His purpose: to discuss with U.S. military chiefs the situation in North Africa...
...drive which requires satiation by eating"; or maybe in some cases the trait is inherited-there is a strain of laboratory mice that habitually gorges, grows pudgy. But Dr. Cutting insisted that those who gain weight on little food simply have more efficient metabolism than big eaters who stay thin. He was sure that fat comes from too much food, that the best way to fight fat is to fight appetite...