Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Ortiz said: "Now I am returning to private life. This .. . will permit me to speak about the others as the others have spoken about me." His great liberal following of the Anti-personalists and Radical Parties had one general hope: if the sick Ortiz was not there to lean on, some equally capable and healthier leader might rise...
Rescue Boat. Out on the wharf waited massive, balding Chairman Rosenthal and lean, nervy Chief Warden Hallett. Occasionally, when the breeze lifted the fog, they could see a medium-sized freighter at anchor a mile or so out in the harbor-the rescue ship. At about 8 o'clock, Dr. Daniel Hiebert, the Public Health Officer, went out to the ship in a Coast Guard boat, later called for Dr. Frank Cass to come out and lend a hand...
From the packed galleries of the Canadian House of Commons last week came gasps of surprise as lean, sandy-thatched Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley presented his new budget. Then, from the people who must pay the bill, came applause...
...time over-all price control halted buying-to-beat-inflation, the average U.S. consumer had a fine closetful of clothes and household supplies to carry him through whatever lean days may be ahead...
Britain now had the answer. As far as U.S. Army men were concerned, she could bank on it. For years they had said "Watch Somervell," and the lean, easy Arkansan had always come through. He had come through so surprisingly that at 50 he was wearing the three silver stars of a lieutenant general. Still unruffled, still masking his occasional bursts of temper with lurid volleys of good-natured profanity, he bosses the biggest show in the U.S. armed forces. It is likely to become the biggest show in the whole U.S. war effort...