Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week one of Cheng's top agents returned to Formosa from a ao-day visit to guerrilla units along the Fukien coast. A lean-faced, hawk-eyed general officer, he has traveled in disguise to five headquarters directing 10,000 guerrillas. Gist of his report: the guerrillas' morale ranged from good to excellent; the condition of their weapons from fair to good. Their living conditions were difficult (23 oz. of rice a day); their help from the peasants was diminishing somewhat as Communist terrorism increased; their spy work in spotting Chinese Red army movements was excellent...
...Lean. The CAC officers fight a losing battle with combat commanders for transportation to move refugee supplies. Recently, when 17 tiny Japanese railway cars loaded with refugee supplies started north from Pusan, CAC officers almost danced...
...games, big, bearded Sikhs and leathery Afghans raced beside short-legged Japanese and lean Iranians. During a tense moment of the football match between Iran and Japan (which Iran won), Iran's bantam weight-lifting champion, Mahmoud Namdjou, leaped on to the dais and did a lively dance...
...Shakespearean scenes, soliloquies, entire plays. For radio serial lovers, there is a four-installment version of Julius Caesar complete with synopses ("Amid the carnival-like entry of Caesar, the procession passes through the streets of Rome, leaving behind Brutus, who ponders Caesar's behavior, and Cassius, who waxes lean and hungry with petty resentment..."). Amatuer talent scouts had a chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, John Barrymore). As a change of pace, Ferrer promises readings from Shakespeare's sonnetts by Gielgud, Basil Rathbone, Dame Edith Evans, as well...
Finally he opens his mouth. We lean foward in anticipation...