Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill mouth, the lean rigor of his face, the green blaze in his eyes, many German women have found something fearful and attractive. Common soldiers, and even his fellow Prussians, sometimes saw in him a quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
They are proving out. "We have only one trouble here," explained lean, benign Don C. Faith, the Fort's colonel-commandant. "They work too hard." Repeatedly the meticulously soft-spoken colonel has warned the WAACs to slow down, to budget their energy...
Said stiff, lean-faced Major General Mark Wayne Clark, Commander of U.S. Ground Forces in Europe: "We are not here to sit on our back ends and be on the defensive. We are here on the offensive. They talk about a second front. All I can say is-the sooner the better." Promising an attack "within the immediate future," Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Britain, declared: "Our enemy at the appointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly coordinated British-American air force...
...Tall, lean, fiercely mustached Brigadier General Frank O'Driscoll Hunter, 47, the new fighter-command chief. "Monk" Hunter loves fighter planes, even though he spent nine months in a hospital when one fell apart in a test at 15,000 feet. He has sported his militarissimous mustache since World War I when he became an eight-plane ace, was continually cited for ferocity: "On patrol he encountered six monoplanes. He immediately attacked...
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