Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human hero of World War II ever received a more rousing welcome. River boats tootled their greetings, sailors swarmed over the decks of adjoining ships to wave and yell at her, thousands of workmen set up a cheer. A bosun piped lean Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, aboard; he grimly surveyed the damage, examined the six Japanese flags painted beneath her bridge. Said he: "Well done." Said grinning Captain Mike Moran: "She's a grand ship...
...anomaly in an Air Force whose combat crews' average age is under 25. After fabulous Gunner Silva's death in the accidental crash of a Flying Fortress in Australia last July, oldsters apparently lost their toe hold in the Air Forces. But last week in London a lean, grizzled, Fortress tailgunner aged 44 turned up: Staff Sergeant Merril W. Gilger, World War I Field Artillery wagoner, onetime Los Angeles real-estate...
...Nome. Jimmy Doolittle was born at Alameda, Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold. Now a solid five feet, five inches of lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...
Last week the story of how the U.S. press was let in on North Africa was told. First inkling that something was afoot came to U.S. correspondents in London early in September when Brigadier General Robert McClure, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower's lean, polo-playing public relations aide, met with the executive committee of the Association of American Correspondents. Newsmen were informed that there was to be an expedition "somewhere." The Army wanted better arrangements, better coverage, better, secrecy than it got in the Commando raid on Dieppe...
Last week the lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...