Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...represents Japan in Berlin and has a Nazi-phobe American wife. Just outside a door that leads to the offices of Adolf Hitler a long table had been placed. Ambassador Kurusu sat there, as did Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop. Before them, on the table, lay a thin document in triplicate...
...biologically speaking, Venus appears much younger than Earth, then Mars appears much older. It is smaller and colder than Earth, has lost most of its atmosphere and water. But a thin atmosphere it still has, perhaps containing a little oxygen. And Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which...
Principal Crazy stockholder is thin-faced, black-eyed, ministerial Carr Pritchett Collins, chairman of the board and longtime crony of Texas' hillbilly Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel. With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics. Accredited with having helped start O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Co., Carr helped run the Governor's campaign, remains a close adviser, is sometimes called the power behind the throne. Glib Radiorator Hal plugs Crazy products and O'Daniel doctrine over company-sponsored broadcasts...
...German one of fanning and pinching mechanized columns. There was only one Italian drive. The Italian commander, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, used Foch's plan of "applying superior force at one point." From Fort Capuzzo in Libya (see map}), fortnight ago, started the Italian spearhead-a long thin line of light Fiat tanks in Indian file, three infantry regiments, including many blacks, a machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment, a communications company with water trucks...
...veterans will see World War I prison camp money, food ration tickets, postal card propaganda and zeppelin air raid pictures. German thin paper nocks are shown, advertised an providing "excellent, protection for the foot against cold and front...