Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sere disc of burnt vegetation half a mile wide. From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air. The glass takes strange shapes-lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms...
...there was no smile on the face of new Boeing President William M. Allen, a thin, balding legal counsel of Boeing for 20 years. He had just stepped into...
...thin, tired man who had seen the Stars & Stripes pulled down in the Pacific went on to see it raised over the home islands of Japan. At Yokohama's New Grand Hotel he was embraced by his old commander, sat down to dinner served by bowing Japanese. There was a pistol at his hip. To U.S. correspondents on Japanese soil Skinny Wainwright said: "It's good to be back a free man and an American soldier wearing a gun again...
...thin, worried Gabriel Tremblay, 39, it was a sorry Labor Day. A onetime Montreal restaurant owner, he had been working at the Canadian Vickers, Ltd. shipyard in East Montreal. There he made better wages than ever before, but heavy medical expenses and old business debts made saving all but impossible. Now that he had been laid off, he did not know what to do. Said he: "The soldiers are coming back . . . and they have to have jobs. But us, we have to live, too." His pretty wife Marianne had it all figured out: unless Gabriel found a job soon, they...
...guided torpedo, "the Spider," electrically controlled by means of a thin wire leash, which could be made to change its course or depth or even leap out of the water like a porpoise...