Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor men in WPB last week became the first casualties of this battle: chunky V. Lewis Bassie, 36, and short, thin Irving Kaplan, 43, WPB economists. Their job had been to prepare confidential reports of war-production progress for top WPB eyes. In their latest report, they made an audacious assertion: except for a few items, the Army has more than enougk materiel to fight the war. Samples: several years' supply of small arms; a year's supply of guns, fire-control equipment and ammunition; at least nine months' stockpile of ordnance equipment generally. When the Army...
...Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone...
...brooding a bit, the WFA officials figured that the simplest way to dispose of the nearly two million bad eggs would be to bury them beyond the town limits of South Burlington. They hired a bulldozer, dumped five carloads into a gully, and covered the yolky quagmire with a thin layer of sandy topsoil...
Observers of the German collapse were also beginning to believe that there was no hard German line of defense to guard the roads to Paris. The U.S. tank columns found the propagandized Rommel Line thin and brittle: there seemed to be no fixed line of solid defenses west of the Maginot and Siegfried forts...
Whatta Club. As he strode, thin and vigorous, toward home plate, the crowd rose to its feet. His hair was slicked down, he looked almost boyish in his dark brown Sunday suit and sport shoes. Most of those present expected him to begin with his usual "My gracious!" or "By golly!" But his thanks were formal...