Word: leaner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...
...week's big meal (Sunday dinner) a British housewife can pool her family's meat ration (25? worth per person) for a roast, served with potatoes, limp lettuce, cauliflower or cabbage, and steamed pudding. But dinner for the rest of the week must be leaner. Sample menus...
While the body grows leaner and weaker, subtler, more dangerous changes occur. Vitamin deficiency causes bones to soften. Protein-deficient diet causes edema-a swelling of arms, legs and abdomen because of waterlogged tissues. Hair and teeth may fall out. Children stop growing...
...occasion was far greater than any words Franklin Roosevelt spoke. As the Senators watched him-perceptibly leaner, slightly stooped over the table, following the text with his forefinger, rubbing his chin when he ad-libbed, occasionally taking a sip of water in a thin hand that patently trembled-they knew that he was talking primarily to them. In numberless ways, Franklin Roosevelt made his main point over & over again: I think Yalta is pretty good; it's not perfect, but it's a good start. I also know that 33 of you, Democrats and Republicans, can band together...
Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack and Majority Whip Robert Ramspeck will be back to lead the 79th Congress. The man who never quite gets to be Speaker, Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, was returned easily, to head a leaner minority...