Word: leaner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food was running out and men were getting leaner on a diet of carabao (water buffalo), cavalry horses and mules, but they stayed on their feet and fought until the burning fever of malaria laid them out. Thousands of prostrated fighting men jammed the field hospitals. Others, listless, weary and sometimes out of their heads hung on with their outfits where they were more liabilities than assets...
When Hitler's war machine crushed France in ten bone-shattering days, the U.S. looked at its own little Army, nervously debated Lend-Lease. Now a leaner U.S. had its own war machine. Hitler's juggernaut, poised for spring, would soon be only the second greatest. Guarded U.S. estimates placed Nazi war spending at $35,000,000,000 a year, close to the absolute German ceiling of manpower and materials. The U.S., said WPB, is spending at the rate of $30,000,000,000 a year-and just getting started. Soon the U.S. will pass Hitler; next year...
...students in the Third Army Junior Officers Training Center-a school set up by Lieut. General Walter Krueger to brush up his juniors (and interested seniors) on military fundamentals. This week the center's first class will receive diplomas from General Krueger, go back to their posts leaner and wiser than before...
Murrow grew 20 Ib. leaner before the last Dornier droned home from the great raids on London. His offices were hit twice. He broadcast in a studio littered with sleeping people on mattresses ("Tis new experience," he cabled, "although probably not so new people sleeping by loudspeakers...
...biggest shout went up when a pilot ripped across the field in next year's airplane, an XP-46, leaner and trimmer than its blood brothers. Still experimental, the XP-46 is Curtiss-Wright's bid for speeds above 400 miles an hour. Secret in design, it is reputedly chalking up fast performances with an old Allison...