Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, lean, towheaded "Opie" Weyland was chief of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which gave brilliant support to General George Patton's brilliant Third Army. Patton called Weyland "the best damn general in the Air Corps . . . He's not always trying to convince me a thing is impossible just because it can't be done...
...Land Is a Mother." In April a lean, ascetic-looking little man with yellow-rimmed spectacles and a greying goatee walked into Telingana with a small party of followers. He was Vinoba Bhave, disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi. He set out to give the peasants what the Communists promised them-land...
...Lean Indian. The road from Mitchell, S. Dak. to national fame led through Chicago and Paris. In Chicago he attended the Art Institute, worked part time as an apprentice in a local sculptor's studio. The neoclassic splendor of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with its acres of white buildings and heroic statues, fired Eraser's desire to go to Paris: "It was the most inspiring moment possible for a young artist...
...made the trip, took along his first major work of sculpture, End of the Trail, a statue of a lean Indian sitting exhausted on his rack-ribbed horse. The work won him Paris recognition, a $1,000 prize and a job as assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Since that day, End, of the Trail has become one of the best-known and most frequently reproduced pieces of sculpture ever made by an American...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...