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...once enthusiastic and objective about his individual players. Brownell, he admits, at number one, can't hope to fill Ufford's spacious shoes, yet in this lean year for giants he will do very well. He pulled the biggest upset of last season by knocking off Navy's Potter in the individual championships. He is lanky, an excellent retriever, and puts on plenty of hard, low pressure. Outs and drives win his matches. He won't dazzle an opponent, he'll wear...
This "movement" is the political threat to India. The border peoples-the lean-shanked Nagas, the scrappy Gurkhas, the gentle aboriginal Lepchas-are closer in racial appearance to Tibet than to India; they do not like Indians at all, and might well respond to sly Communist demands for "independence...
Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman al Faisal al Saud, son of the Sultan of Nejd, grew up lean and strong, ignorant of book learning, but a whirlwind in the saddle and a master of desert wile. As a boy, he was made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds...
Most of them were healthy and spring-legged, though lean; but some had malaria, tuberculosis or hookworm. In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team-Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S. After medical examination, the first lot of evacuees were flown to Formosa...
...wind strung their cheeks as they walked through the Yard. Dinner was the answer to the cold. What to eat? Everyone had steak last night. How about chicken? No, everyone eats chicken on Sunday. Ah spaghetti and a bottle of chanti with spumoni for desert. Perfect. Menu settled, they lean forward in intimate friendship...