Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again the thin clouds...
...dint of some ingenious rewriting, and considerable skating on thin ice, Hollywood has produced a version of Kings Row which retains that novel's main outlines without arousing the censors. This is no mean feat, since the book bore down on sadism, incest and assorted abnormalities so heavily that its liberal admixture of seduction seemed a welcome note of normalcy. Although the grislier aspects have been glossed over prettily in deference to the family trade, the picture is still moderately worth-while entertainment...
...They are average men, with some women, their ages varying from 16 years to 55 and even 60. . . . Leonid Baidek . . . is a thin, seemingly nervous type of fellow, but a man who knows the countryside. . . . His wife and his wife's sister were killed by the Germans because they found out that he was a partisan. . . . There were 33 men in Baidek's detachment, ununiformed, heavily armed and determined, roaming over the entire region between Bryansk, Orel and Tula, blowing up bridges, hunting down small groups of Germans, smashing trucks and ambushing artillery. . . . In one operation they freed...
Vichy's cloak of neutrality was wearing too thin to hide much. In London, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton gave figures showing that Vichy's collaboration with Germany had been military, as well as economic and political. He said that in two months Vichy had sent the German forces in Libya cars, lorries, 5,500 tons of motor fuel...
Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...