Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress neared the end of the long push on the nation's spending program for fiscal 1951, a level Southern voice echoed through the House's chamber. It was an echo which would haunt every home, farm and business in the nation. Lean,, black-browed Congressman George Mahon of Colorado City, Texas, was telling his colleagues last week that they had only begun to spend the people's money...
...27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division had never retreated unless it was ordered by higher command, and most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth...
Goums and French Foreign Legion troops are holding the outpost of Dong-dang. The Goums-bearded, bemedaled, fierce-eyed North African troops-are savage, close-quarter fighters whose physical courage seems to have no limits. Many of the legionnaires are German-lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades. Among them are veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps. I asked Dupuis how he got on with them...
Said Harry Bridges, as he folded his lean frame into the familiar San Francisco witness chair last week: "I'm not a pacifist. I'm against aggression ... I will continue to speak out against war and if I haven't got that right, I may as well go to jail right...
...This is the engineer soldier at his best," said Douglas MacArthur in 1945 when he pinned a Distinguished Service Cross on Major General Leif John Sverdrup, his acting Chief Engineer for the Pacific Theater. The D.S.C. was lean Jack Sverdrup's reward for leading the reconnaissance and capture of Lingayen airfield on Luzon. But he had long since won greater fame for his methodically frenzied hacking of airstrips, almost overnight, out of South Pacific jungles. At war's end Jack Sverdrup went back to his St. Louis engineering firm of Sverdrup & Parcel...