Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good generals obey orders. General MacArthur asked only for time-time to plan the strategy to meet the next expected Jap attack (see p. 20), time to transfer his command to lean, competent Major General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, 58-year-old cavalry officer who knows all the tricks of Bataan defense...
...except for an occasional door-slamming bang from the guns the artillery was silent. In the woods the pilots climbed into their seats, fastened their helmets and parachute straps. The engines in the P-4Os belched, coughed, broke into cavernous mumbles. Down the concealed alleyways through the trees the lean airplanes teetered to the airdrome. They bellowed briefly for the warmup...
Since Dec. 20 bald, lean "Rey" King had been Commander in Chief, United States Fleet. He had been brought to Washington from command of the Atlantic fleet, given more authority than any CINCUS ever had before. Submarine man, naval aviator and onetime Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral King is air-minded. Thus, twice in two weeks, the President, in military shakeups, had emphasized air warfare...
After 69 years of football-most of them lean-New York University decided to quit the game...
...Though they spend their lives on the bottom of the sea, well protected from rain, oysters grow plump in rainy seasons, lean in droughts. So claimed the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Reason: rain washes minerals from the soil into sounds and ocean bays, where they fertilize the microscopic plants which oysters...