Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soon lean, tall, Red Cross Worker Robert Porter, breakfasting in an army mess, heard a noise he had learned to heed in China. He called: "Those are the Japanese." Unbelieving officers scrambled from the mess hall for a look, agreed with Porter only when one officer exclaimed: "They must be Japanese. We haven't got that many bombers...
...doughboys themselves forced the change. They wanted more news from home, and said so. Tired of trying to make something out of the dry, news-lean English papers, they wanted their news served up American style. Typical doughboy beef: "How can I tell the World Series scores when the London Times tells of a run scored in penultimate frames...
...talking about when he cabled TIME that the Red soldiers are "actually better disciplined and more deadly serious about this war than the troops of any other nation-think, breathe, eat and sleep it-do not even enjoy a stay away from it. Their very camels seem to lean forward into the wind with a special urgency...
Taking the place of regulars on fire trucks, they learn how to handle and operate fire hose, pumps, and aerial ladders in realistic drills. The volunteers lean everything from the fundamentals of a city water supply to the operation of modern fire alarm systems...
...lean, wiry A.P. reporter had been revived at Port Moresby hospital by special food and drugs flown in from the Australian mainland. He was still too weak to talk about his record trek after bailing out of a U.S. Army bomber, but his diary talked for him with terse eloquence. Some entries...