Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockets go thump, thump, thumping out of them and bursting along the shore. The big rockets, taking off with a coughing roar, scorch the beach and plow up vegetation behind them. Many 20-mm. autoguns are hammering like runaway riveters and weaving red lines of tracer shells alongshore like thin angry fingers prying and poking into every patch that might shelter an enemy...
Parson Weems has been remembered by generations of Americans only as the man -presumably a dust-dry, thin-lipped little pedant-who invented or at least popularized the most famous lie in U.S. history: the fable of George Washington and the cherry tree. As revived by Van Wyck Brooks in The World of Washington Irving, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems appears to have been an attractive and useful citizen. A cheerful, ruddy-faced clergyman who had given up his parish to become a book agent (the Episcopal Church in the South was demoralized after the Revolution), Parson Weems...
...thin, elastic film which can be used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful. When the wound has healed, the plastic dries and drops off like a scab...
...Thin-faced, 51 -year-old Lou Holtz was born "in an alley" on Manhattan's lower East Side. Before he was born, his father (a Russian Jew named Bruce) had gone "fishing to Coney Island," was never seen again. Lou's immigrant mother peddled hairpins and shoelaces, met, married and went West with a man named Holtz. Lou grew up in San Francisco, got stage-struck while still learning fractions, at 16 started singing in a dingy little café. Elsie Janis heard him, told him to head for Broadway...
...Thin High Air. Like the barnstormers of the 1920s, their pilots have been flying light single-engined planes, edging them over the Hump by instinct and seat-of-the-pants navigation. Toughest route is that flown by Mountain States Aviation, Inc., whose one single-engined Beechcraft biplane has been successfully making the 286-mile loop from Denver through northwestern Colorado since July 24. On each trip it must fly through five mountain passes higher than 9,000 feet (highest: Corona Pass, 11,680 ft.). Other lines now operating are Massey & Ransom, and the Pueblo Air Services. Colorado Airlines, Inc. operated...