Word: thinned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...artillery shell, the first car of the 6:13 buried itself, full length, in the last car of the 6:09. Both were crowded smokers; in one grinding and convulsive moment they were telescoped into a great steel package of mangled bodies, torn cushions, broken glass and twisted metal. Thin cries rose in the sudden silence...
...Thin to Hold. Last week a U.S. major, Charles Hoge, came limping into Seoul on sore legs and blistered feet. He had been KMAG adviser to the R.O.K. national police in Chunchon, which was stormed by guerrillas last fortnight. Major Hoge's story...
...made by about two battalions. We had perhaps 200 police and 400 R.O.K. troops and decided we were too thin to hold, as we could see them streaming down the mountains to the north. We formed a vehicle column and headed southwest. Our advance patrol encountered two enemy groups but blasted them out with artillery. When we were about ten miles out, we heard firing far ahead, and assumed-and still assume- that it was the 31st coming...
...Thin, sad Burglar René Girier was a slippery one, no doubt about it. Because of his attenuated form they called him René the Stick, and truly it sometimes seemed as though René could slip through holes that would stop a toothpick. In 1942 the Vichy police had picked him up for robbing a farm, and René had skipped across the border into occupied France. The Germans picked him up there and sent him to a labor camp in Berlin. Two weeks later he had escaped again and was back in Paris...
Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered with spongy, saltwater ice only about ten feet thick-too thin to support anything more weighty than a family of iglooed Eskimos. Last week the Air Force reported that many hundred miles from land, aircraft crews of its weather service on polar flights had discovered ice islands with more important possibilities. Pictures of one of them were shown to an Alaskan Science Conference at Washington. The ice island is some 35 miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating...