Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas MacArthur's second in command. Horseman Wainwright and Brigadier General Albert N. Jones received Distinguished Service Crosses for "extraordinary heroism in action" during early phases of the Philippine invasion. Douglas MacArthurs Chief of Staff is handsome, young (48) Major General Richard K. Sutherland. Commanding Corregidor is tall, thin Major General George F. Moore, a Coast Artilleryman since 1909. Carl Seals, Douglas MacArthur's closest friend and Adjutant General, was recently made a brigadier. Chief of engineers is Brooklyn-born Brigadier General (until recently Colonel) Hugh John Casey, of Casey's Cookies fame (TIME...
General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years...
Jesse Jones has an expediter. "Keep on their tails," said he to tall, knife-thin Clarence Francis, who took a leave from the presidency of General Foods to do the job. "Keep on their tails," said Clare Francis to some 20 other top-notch executives who volunteered to man his 17 regional offices. The tails: those of some 500 corporations now building more than $3,000,000,000 worth of new war plants with Jesse Jones's money...
...Guesser most interested in the fate of German subs in Yankee waters is thin-lipped, seam-faced, British-hating Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz, creator and Commander of Germany's U-boat fleet...
...Hollywood can't be given credit for anything else, it at least deserves praise for its ability to recognize a good thing when it finds one. And when it filmed the first Dashiell Hammet "Thin Man" picture several years ago, it hit on something that is still firing away on all cylinders. "The Shadow of the Thin Man," the latest of the series, is conclusive proof that the throngs of film fans who flock to see Nick Charles solve murder after murder in his individual and somewhat alcoholic way are not going to be disappointed for a long time...