Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innovator, a skilled administrator, he is a man tough of hide and mind. He parts his thin ribbons of hair precisely in the center of his head; gave up smoking cigarets, now chews (gum). In his new job, he will have plenty to chew...
...Thin and Uneducated. Thin women, without college degrees or white-collar experience, will soon hold more than half the jobs in the Chicago ordnance district's shell-production plants, Army officers announced. Officers predicted that thinness, lack of education and lack of white-collar experience would soon get women more & more of the jobs in tank production and other war work. Reasons: feminine dexterity and patience make them superior to men in assembly and inspection work; thin people are less troubled by the heat, and are faster workers; college graduates and white-collar workers do not like...
Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
Though we were ragged and weary, so thin that rings won't stay on our fingers, some of us with malaria, dysentery or infected feet, yet everyone was in comparatively good health for so arduous a trip...
...fashion glued-wood planes at its Maryland factory, where the aircraft industry's first women guards patrol the production lines, Fairchild puts the almost paper-thin veneers under heat and pressure in steel cylinders. Baked and pressed into shape, they are free of the rivet-bumps on aluminum alloy planes, do not wrinkle, as metal does, under the impact of gusts...