Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these outcries, lean, long Representative Clarence F. Lea of California retorted that cows, like people, soon accustom themselves to new habits; that farmers are used to summer's daylight time; that most farmers pay no attention to clocks anyhow, will work as they always have, from dawn to dusk. It was the old argument, which will never be settled so long as some men live in cities and others on farms...
...officers of Wake were at work, too-jockey-sized, balding Major Jimmie Devereux, the commander; lean-hipped Major Paul Albert Putnam, commander of the fighter squadron; Major Walter Lewis John Bayler, temporary supervisor of Wake's air base (who was to be taken off Wake, presumably to report on weapons, tactics...
This collegiate ground-breaking is due in no small part to an eleven-year campaign by a bronzed, lean artilleryman at West Point. He is Colonel Herman Beukema, 50, Michigan-born son of a smalltown newspaperman. A West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies...
...Japanese would set up a vassal Government in Manila, put at its head a puppet President. Who? Not Manuel Quezon: even though Quezon in the past has shown no antipathy toward the Japs, Quezon is now committed to a last-ditch defense. And not Sergio Osmeña: the lean, calm, white-haired Vice President of the Philippines is half Chinese...
...basement of Washington's old House Office Building, a tall greying man with intense eyes and a lean, unsmiling face prayed for drought. Edward Page Gaston, brother of anti-cigaret Crusader Lucy Page Gaston, hoped that World War II would bring Prohibition...