Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools closed at noon. Most of the stores locked their doors. At 1 p.m. three big transport planes plumped down at the airport and a thin, tired-looking man stepped out on Georgia soil. Long before, Atlanta's excited citizens were packed along the downtown streets...
...drab-colored command car, grinning and waving his thin brown hand, General Hodges rode through Atlanta's cheering streets. With him in the parade of cars rode eight other generals, 19 officers of lesser rank, 22 enlisted men, most of them Georgia boys, all grinning and gaping at the B-29s sweeping overhead (B-29s are a novelty to veterans of Europe...
...platform the General was speaking in his dry, thin voice: "We feel that we are really home at last, even though there are many of us whose stay here will be brief. . . . To the wounded and to those who remain in Europe-we salute...
...Biggest. On thin paper, the dam is the greatest waterpower project in the world, easily overshadowing the U.S.'s Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams, and Russia's Dnieprostroy. As projected, it will take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other...
...quiet, blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Ivan Nikitine, deputy chief of Stalin's own security police, Russian criminologists reconstructed the last days of Hitler in Berlin. Beside a bookcase in Hitler's personal room in the battle-wrecked Chancellery the sleuths found a thin concrete removable panel. Behind was a man-sized hole leading to a super-secret concrete shelter, far underground and 500 meters away. Another tunnel connected the shelter with an underground trolley line. Food scraps in the shelter indicated that from six to twelve people had stayed there as late...