Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the cast wanders through the thin story suffering badly from general cases of meatless Tuesdays all week. Thin, raw-boned and badly undernourished, their acting mirrors the effects of having to eat turnips for eight years on the nation's stages. If you've ever eaten too many turnips, you know the symptoms...
Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
...some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which left the target burning briefly. The Army's new flame thrower squirts a thin stream of an improved fuel, with greater accuracy, over a greater distance, leaves its target burning longer...
Spreading Thin. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (now part of United China Relief) is represented in China by Dr. George W. Bachman. Though 52-year-old Dr. Bachman speaks in platitudes ("I am looking out for a way to help the war effort"), he is a topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...
Anti-personnel mines are a development of World War II. French patrols during the "phony" war of 1939-40 went out and never returned. Several patrols were thus annihilated before it was found that the Germans had strung thin wires through no man's land. Thereafter, the French patrols drove cattle and pigs ahead of them. Says Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Thompson, U.S. authority on land mines: "As long as the supply of animals holds out, the method has its points. Its efficacy is indicated in German reports describing the odor of decaying swine flesh which pervaded the Arndt...