Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...
...world. Moscow may have been severely disconcerted by the bold U.S. intervention in Korea, but Stalin's men have a way of recovering quickly from surprises. Facing this week's situation, they were well aware that nearly all combat-ready ground troops at U.S. disposal, except for thin minimum needs for garrison duty, were committed, or soon would be, in Korea. No man could soundly predict victory in Korea by Thanksgiving or for that matter by the next Thanksgiving unless he ignored the possibility that Moscow might set up a brushfire somewhere else, or intensify the force...
...never saw men with so much guts," said Marine Brigadier General Edward Craig, as he watched through his glasses. Craig's hand trembled slightly, but his mouth was as determined as the thin line of marines on the forbidding face of the ridge...
...their various fashions, the people of New Mexico had long prayed for rain. They were used to seeing the Rio Grande shrunk to a brookwide trickle, too thick to drink, too thin to plough. They were used to seeing their reservoirs low, their rolling ranges burned brown. Often they were forced to ship their cattle away to greener pastures. Many a sun-scorched New Mexican had said resignedly: "The Lord made the state dry. I guess He wants it that...
...nearby Massachusetts. When he reached it, he scattered into it six pounds of dry ice. Almost at once the cloud, which had been drifting along peacefully, began to writhe as if in torment. White pustules rose from its surface. In 5 minutes the whole cloud melted away, leaving a thin wraith of snow. None of the snow reached the ground (it evaporated on the way down), but the dry ice treatment had successfully broken up a cloud...