Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imperious nose resembling a mountain bird's beak, Don Francesco majestically strides along under an immense faded green umbrella; its edges are much frayed by rubbing against the grey stone walls that lean over the narrow, cobbled streets. Shepherds, wrapped in lambskins, and black-shawled women bow low to let the priest's umbrella sweep over them as he sails by. "God be with you, Don Francesco," say the men. "God preserve you and us," say the women...
Died. Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 56, editor of the great, grey London Times; after long illness; at Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa. Lean, quiet Barrington-Ward became editor in paper-starved 1941, nevertheless helped restore to "The Thunderer" (which had subsided to a quiet echo of government policy) the old, forthright attitude that made it "free enough to cause some mutterings on the extreme Right and even some delighted flutterings on the Left...
...change, said new President Wilson, took him "completely by surprise." Just as surprised was the business world outside A.T. &T. Beyond his own vast company, lean, friendly Leroy August Wilson was not well known. Manhattan's financial writers, scrabbling through their files, found no mention of him. But they found ample evidence in A.T. & T. annals of what Leroy Wilson had done...
...Britain chose to replace him was lean, ascetic Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, 43, a philosopher-turned-economist who was born in the year that Inverchapel first headed into the foreign service. No conventional diplomat, Sir Oliver is one of the little group of keen-minded young Oxford dons who rocketed to prominence in wartime government service. He is an emotionless factfinder who has been described as the most unneurotic man in Britain...
...Angeles got a new archbishop last week. Appointed by the Pope to tend the archdiocese's flock of 600,000 Roman Catholics was New York's tall, lean Coadjutor Archbishop James Francis Aloysius Mclntyre...