Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Pulliam Cain, Republican from Washington, 44, tall, lean, friendly-and a lightweight. As early as 1947, he urged withdrawal of occupation forces from Germany, and an end to the denazification program. On occasion, he subjects the Senate to hammy theatrics and wild filibusters. Some of his Senate colleagues would be inclined to rate him as no more than a noisy nonentity if he were not something more bothersome-the real-estate lobby's warmest friend...
...Navy publications, studded them with quotations from Napoleon, Lee and Moltke, ranged in subject from critiques on the 1918 air war in Palestine to suggestions for carrier design. Many of his contemporaries found his singleminded-ness irritating. But his superiors were delighted with a staff officer they could lean on; subordinates liked a man who always knew just what he wanted...
...skilled than inspired, they were the work of Edy Legrand, one of France's slickest book illustrators. Obviously determined to achieve an atmosphere of truth to nature and history, Artist Legrand had turned his back on the usual modern mishmash of beards, flowing sheets and halos, had drawn lean, Semitic men & women and placed them in landscapes as stark as the hills of Judea...
...steam-heated courtroom, the twelve men and alternate sat down to consider the case. The trial had drawn the attention of half the world. On hand were photographers, newsmen, feature writers (among them, Novelists Fannie Hurst and John O'Hara), reporters from London and Paris newspapers. Dr. Sander, lean-faced, pale and expressionless, his busy and respected career interrupted, sat inside the courtroom rail with his wife, the mother of his three children...
Yale gave him confidence and sharpened his wits, but in his basic thinking the shaggy-haired, long-boned rustic was not deeply affected. He had been reading John Locke and Thomas Paine since 13. He had learned a lean, spare style of debate and he had developed an abiding conviction that the source of all power is the people-a notion that he was later to translate into his brilliant argument for states' rights against the growing power of the Federal Government...