Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be hauled to her final snug harbor at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, as a memorial to all the U.S. seamen who lost their lives at sea in World Wars I and II, and as a personal tribute to Rear Admiral Dan Gallery, the lean and leathery wartime skipper of the Guadalcanal...
...lean, sad-eyed son of a North Carolina Baptist preacher, Paul Crouch drifted away from the South at 21. He joined the U.S. Army, preached Communism to his buddies at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, was court-martialed and sent to Alcatraz. After serving three years there, he was dressed out in 1928 and turned to full-time work for Communism. In 1942 he broke with the party...
...drawing, some 6,000 people-ranchers, townsfolk, Indians-crowded into the bright, flag-draped town square of Rupert (pop. 4,000). Under trees and ten-gallon hats, they watched a parade, listened to political speeches and waited for the winning names to be drawn. Tired of waiting and hoping, lean young (30) Leslie Clair Powers fell asleep on the grass. Next thing he knew, his wife Elizabeth was shaking him awake in wild excitement: the loudspeaker had blared his name...
...Senate this week came Edward David (Ted) Crippa, 55, of Rock Springs. Wyo., a lean, eager merchant, banker and auto-dealer whose father was born in the Tyrolean Alps. Appointed by Wyoming's Republican Governor C. J. Rogers to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Lester Callaway Hunt, who shot himself to death last fortnight (TIME, June 28), Republican National Committeeman Crippa restored the G.O.P. to a numerical majority in the Senate. The count now: 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Wayne Morse. Appointee Crippa will not run for the full Senate term in the November election. Leading contender...
...DIARY NORTH AND SOUTH (268 pp. abridged)-by William Howard Russell, edited by Fletcher Pratt-Harper ($4). "There entered, with a shambling, loose, irregular, almost unsteady gait, a tall, lank, lean man considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders and long pendulous arms terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions . . . He was dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose...