Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin line of British infantrymen advanced slowly up the ridge. When they were some 40 yards short of the summit, the whole hushed countryside seemed to blow up. Mortars, rifles and machine guns from the enemy positions suddenly concentrated on them. The infantrymen wavered for a moment, looked up at the sky, then dashed on to the summit, where they...
...orders from a man whom they seldom or never saw, whose name they almost never read in Red Star or Pravda, a man whom they all knew as the Liubimets (the pet, the favorite, the darling, the beloved) of the Red Army. But it was Engineer Sosnovkin, thin and unimpressive in his grey overcoat, who had to tell the men what General Zhukov, the Liubimets, now wanted of them...
...morning chosen by the Liubimets, Engineer Sosnovkin placed stakes on the thin sheet of ice just above his bridge...
...Axis had two other pressure weapons. One was economic strangulation. Switzerland's main economic life line, through the Mediterranean and north Italy, had become a very thin thread susceptible to being pinched off at half a dozen points. Her secondary life line, overland from Lisbon through France, could be cut at any moment. Finally, with troops on every frontier, the Germans had the weapon of military invasion...
...result is a blur to the naked eye. To separate the two pictures so that each eye sees only the image meant for it, Polaroid sheets must be used in the beam splitter and also in glasses worn by the audience. Polaroid is a thin plastic containing myriads of tiny, imbedded, needle-like crystals of iodo-sulfate of quinine, all parallel. When a beam of light strikes the sheet all light waves that are vibrating in the plane of the crystals pass through, all others are stopped. Thus the two beams of light from the projector are filtered so that...