Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston received a foretaste of aerial warfare yesterday when two "airplane clouds" caused by army plane manoeuvres were reported by the Blue Hill Observatory. The clouds appeared as long thin streaks in the sky lasting for about half an hour...
...long and before one could say "danger, thin ice" the boys were enjoying a police escort to the local headquarters. The thrill began to drag after several hours as cellmates...
...nailed on the spot any assumptions that Hopkins was to be appointed Ambassador to take Joe Kennedy's place. Someone else would get that job, which Hopkins was in no physical, political or diplomatic condition to fill. But as nearly as any man can be, nervous, thin, trigger-quick Harry Hopkins has become the alter ego of Franklin Roosevelt. Since last spring he has lived in the White House...
Last week BBC came out with a thin account of another "invasion" attempt. Since mid-October, it said, 15 German infantrymen from eight different units had been captured "at ports on the English southeast coast, and were in fact the first members of the great German invasion Army to reach England alive." What this amounted to was nothing more than proof of what military people would naturally expect, i.e., cross-channel raids by small parties of both sides to feel out enemy dispositions...
...undergraduate, reeking rich. He proceeds to paint a sharper-than-average picture of gambling, snobbery and alcoholism among the more gilded British collegians. At the end of his wild night he finds that his father is not only dead but bankrupt and that his real life has begun. On thin savings he subsists for a while in a shabby-genteel London boardinghouse, at length moves on to the full depth of the slums...