Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thick Going in Thin Air. Strategy and tactics are not very different in mountain fighting, but carrying them out is more difficult. Traveling uphill is slower than walking on the level, coming down is faster for men (especially on skis) but maddeningly slow for mules. The rare mountain air forces frequent rests, even after man & beast are accustomed...
...Washington, "thin sharp remnants of the afternoon's cold wind dither across bleak LaFayette Square directly in front of the White House; tree limbs stick up bare and stark above the scant light of the posted lamps. . . . There is a silent deliberation in the movement of the cars. . . . Hundreds of pedestrians in a steady flow ease past the tall, iron picket fence separating the White House grounds from the avenue. . . . They move along quietly, talking if at all in whispers, subdued whispers. Silence on the avenue, despite the mob of cars, the mass of people, is apparent, deep enough...
...from Moscow. When Ghormley became a maker of battles, even his old classmates found that they really knew little of their friend. They could describe his thin grey hair, his stern mouth, his droop-lidded eyes. They could discourse on his geniality when he relaxed over a drink, on the calm, unexcited way of his command of a battleship, of his respect for the opinions of his staff officers before his own decisions were made. But few of them had ever got to the inside of the man. When they tried, by thinking back over his friendship, they decided that...
West Virginia. Tall, thin, Governor Matthew M. Neely likes the New Deal, the C.I.O., loves purple language and purple suits. He also loves politics, in which he is a shrewd and practical man. In 1940, as a U.S. Senator with two years still to go, he saw his career threatened by the machine run by onetime Governors Herman G. Kump and Homer A. Holt. He scurried home, got elected Governor, began repairing local fences...
Because the regular stockmarket is too thin to handle big blocks of stock, two N.Y. Stock Exchange firms last week jumped into the over-the-counter market, sold 100,000 shares of Standard Oil of California, 115,000 shares of Standard of Jersey and 46,000 shares of American Tobacco B in two days. One result: a full day's business lost to the Exchange...