Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Episcopal Sewanee and Nashville's Peabody College were having their first Cumberland Forest Festival: a kind of Tanglewood of the South, directed by lean, sandy, U.S. Symphonist Roy Harris. The festival highlight: a mid-century survey of 20th Century music...
...whole, lean, shrewd Millard Tydings had run a good and fair hearing. And after four months of wild charges and black headlines, Joe McCarthy had yet to document a single card-carrying Communist in the State Department, let alone the 57, 81 or 205 he had promised to prove. Without even waiting to see the Tydings report, McCarthy announced that it would be "a disgrace to the Senate." Unfortunately for him, however, there were other headlines being made these days...
Young, Tall & Lean. The union men, most of them the young, tall, lean and laconic type which abounds in the east Tennessee hill country, didn't say much. They just piled into their cars and drove seven miles east to a valley called Lowland. They parked bumper-to-bumper close to a limp, dirty tent which was headquarters for the picket line. From there they could see the American Enka Corp.'s Lowland plant and almost hear the whir of machines turning out rayon yarn for automobile tires. For a while, at the end of March, Local...
...language. I want facts, facts to be set down with finality in my notebook. I prod the colonel: How many people have gone home? How much weaker are the Huks? How can he tell? He looks more & more harassed; suddenly he grins with a certain ferocity, and jabs his lean, dark hand at me and at each of the small group of officers who surround...
...candidates when congressional choices failed to make the grade. When Army beat Navy in 1944 for the first time in six years, suspicious Navy men began to wonder if West Point had not found a new source for husky linemen and jet-propelled backs. Last year, after five lean Navy seasons, capped by 1949's thumping 38-0 Army victory, the Navy decided it would take another act of Congress to get Annapolis squared away again...