Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture category. Although the villain's identity is hardly much of a secret after the first reel, dialogue, direction, and photography must place "Blind Spot" far, far above the great majority of its class--better, perhaps, than a good number that pass as first-run productions in these lean times...
Last week Washington learned that Dean Acheson really meant what he had said. Those in the know were sure that his successor would be lean, articulate, 51-year-old Robert A. Lovett, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air and an old friend of Marshall...
Industry argued that it had to make a profit when it could; fat years make up for the lean. But Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and his advisers pointed out the situation in which industry now found itself. They earnestly suggested that industry cut prices before it was too late. Too late would be that moment when buyers had been priced out of the market and prices broke and collapsed. It was a question of easing the pressure now or spinning head on into another depression...
...small, lean, nervous, friendly Viennese, Pepi, who is a former automobile mechanic and French Foreign Legionnaire, was, for ten years, handy man to a U.S. business man who insisted that Pepi be able to play tennis with his guests, cook dinner, serve it, and, after dinner, sit in as a fourth at bridge. Pepi's duties for the Paris bureau are just as varied, and he can generally be counted on to deliver in style - as he did last summer when, drafted at the last moment to play baseball (a game he had viewed only once), he rapped...
After Germany fell, the 705 began to lean hard on their Brazilian citizenship. They drifted into D.P. camps and finally wangled a ride back to Brazil. Stalking off their ship last week in Rio, they sounded anything but reconstructed. For the Nazi war criminals, they had no word of censure; for U.S. and British treatment, they had nothing but gripes...