Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESIDENT MAGSAYSAY, but at the Philippine army's Camp Murphy the situation looked somewhat different. Taruc was installed in quarters usually reserved for VIPs. A Cabinet officer lent him a flowered shirt, photographers had a field day, soldiers brought in fans to keep him cool. Watching the lean Communist leaning easily on a windowsill, first-naming an Under Secretary, and running his delicate hands through the black curls of his 18-year-old son Romeo, an officer snapped: "You would think he was the head of state waiting to talk to another head of state...
...They're trying to make a hero out of me, and I'm embarrassed," wrote Major George A. Davis from Korea to his wife Doris. A lean, dark Texan, he had been the "best all-round boy" in Morton (Texas) high school, later in the Pacific flew 266 missions and shot down seven Japanese planes. In Korea Davis downed 14 Red planes in all. On Feb. 10, 1952 he dived into a formation of Red MIGs, shot down two and was gunning for another when, mortally hit, his Sabre jet crashed. For his valiant last fight Pilot Davis...
Modern, sterile John Hancock Hall is a far cry from the Haig, a tiny, dim-lit supper club across from Los Angeles' plush Ambassador Hotel. Yet, with just a few numbers from his low pitched saxophone, Gerry Mulligan, a lean-faced, red-headed young man with a "new sound," proved last night that he isn't far from home...
...While a lean and hungry look does not always denote financial need, the Council has little more basis for administering its program. An applicant just tallies up his income and his expenses to enter the competition. Denied access to Financial Aid's files, the Council can only hope these tallies are accurate. The only checks are student-run interviews. But because the interviews lack the assured secrecy offered by the University program, applicants often do not state their whole case. Moreover, preferential treatment is more likely where applicant and administrator may have had previous contact...
...Pudge's days at Yale, he was a lean, powerful (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) youngster who made the team as a freshman after a vicious scrimmage initiation: the Yale captain deliberately rasped his canvas sleeves back and forth across Pudge's nose until it was raw and bleeding, ordered opposing linemen to step on his knuckles, kick him in the shins. Pudge passed the test, became a fleet-footed guard* on the Yale team of 1888 that scored 698 points against the likes of Penn, Rutgers and Princeton, and was never scored on itself...