Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico National Guard had been in the Philippines. Mothers and wives met from Deming to Rosewell to Santa Fe, still hoped their coast artillerymen were on Corregidor. Salinas, Calif, lost a company of infantry soldiers; California mothers wept with Filipino women whose sons were veterans in the Scouts, or lean-faced youngsters just out of the West Point grey of the Philippine Military Academy...
...days Cebu's people had taken to the hills every time a ship appeared in the roadstead. After each false, alarm, lean, grey, Lieut. Colonel Howard J. Edmands and his little denim-clad Filipino M.P.s tramped back from the dock areas through the street, jaunty and unafraid with their rifles and their single machine gun. The remains of Cebu's population quieted down, and waited...
Last week lean, weather-beaten Colonel Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 48, replaced Brigadier General Bob Olds as chief of the U.S. Air Force Ferrying Command. Bombardment George's job is a lulu: he is responsible for the transport of all planes from U.S. factory lines to the place of use, whether in the U.S. or at front lines in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He must cram all possible men, equipment and supplies into every outgoing plane, must find and train pilots on the side...
...nobility. Around a forthright central figure curiously reminiscent of a Johnnie Walker whiskey ad revolved the Tribune's detractors in their ugliest guise: Spiders H. V. Kaltenborn and Walter Winchell with microphones; Moths Marshall Field and Frank Knox; Skunk Harold Ickes; cigaret-smoking Hen Dorothy Thompson; a lean crow representing the New York Herald Tribune, which dared recently to comment on some of the Chicago Tribune's antics...
...this sad scene appeared John R. ("Jock") McLean, 26-year-old son of Washington's wealthy Evalyn Walsh Mc Lean, owner of the Hope Diamond. Softball-playing Jock McLean is also brother-in-law of North Carolina's Bob Reynolds-the 57-year-old "Fighting Bob" who married Jock's 20-year old sister Evalyn last October. Reynolds is chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, before which come all Army appropriations bills...