Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Listens. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault, perhaps more than to any other man, the Admiral's statement made excellent sense, held out a promise. Strangled by a Japanese land-sea blockade, General Chennault and his Fourteenth Air Force are operating at the end of a thin, 16,000-mile supply line, the longest in the world. A southeast China port through which can flow thousands of tons of needed war materiel from the U.S. is Claire Chennault's key to decisive victory. Only the Navy, knifing through the Gilberts toward Truk, and northward to Wake...
Annapolis Trained. All of the flag officers who rule the waves-with one thin exception-are Annapolis trained, † That exception is Rear Admiral Albert B. Ran dall, ex-skipper of the Leviathan. No com bat commander, he is a member of the Merchant Marine Reserve and comman dant of the U.S. Maritime Service in the War Shipping Administration...
...product was misrepresented in that the name suggested it was efficacious to cure underdeveloped, atrophied, flabby and pendulous breasts and . . . to develop the firm, well-developed breasts of youth." An abashed user of the capsules, Mrs. Lucille Frances Hinton Moody, 42, bravely testified that she had always been "thin and never fully developed," had taken one package of capsules with no perceptible result. She began on another package just to give Breasts of Youth a break. Somewhere in package No. 2 she got disgusted, turned the stuff over to a Food & Drug inspector...
...warcaster who has sat longest at a Russian microphone during World War II recently returned to the U.S NBC's thin, quiet, earnest Robert Magidoff, ex-A.P. man, has been in Russia, except for an occasional trip home, for the last eight years. Kiev-born, U.S.-raised and educated (University of Wisconsin), he was hired by NBC two and a half year ago, sight unseen. He is married to a Russian, speaks her language fluently, ha observed her people with equanimity. Some of his observations...
...savage screams, felt his bladder empty itself, his stomach throw up its contents over the table. There was lightning and thunder, the splitting of skin, the convulsions of choking from the grimy sponge they had thrust into his mouth to silence him." As he felt himself pass out, his thin, fading voice muttered: "I have nothing to confess...