Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When George I arrived in England fresh from his native Hanover he brought along two mistresses: "spectrally thin" Madame Schulenburg, popularly known as The Maypole, and "monstrously fat" Madame Kielmansegge, popularly known as The Elephant. The first sight of them made London crowds hoot. Cried the Schulenburg: "Good pipple, what for you abuse us? We come for all your goots." A voice from the crowd: "Yes, and our chattels...
...advancement to the colored volunteer, who in the past has been suffered in the navy only as mess mate, steward, or cook. But on a comparative scale this move is hardly better than the closed door policy that the navy has clung to in the past through thick and thin...
...ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side. Before her explosive-laden bow piled into the dock gates of St.-Nazaire, she had sunk a Nazi flak* ship, stung many a shore battery with...
With its strength spread thin, the U.S. Navy had a job on its hands to keep the sub packs from blocking sea lanes to the south. But it was determined that it would not fall in with Nazi plans by recalling U.S. destroyer fleets to home waters. Last week the Navy was given command of all anti-submarine activities off both the East and the West Coasts, which brought under its jurisdiction several air units of the U.S. Army...
...electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate makes a crackerjack substitute for tinplate in certain fields...