Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year lean, hardbitten, taciturn Colonel Claire L. Chennault (U.S. Army, retired), adviser to Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force, left Chungking for the U.S. He rounded up U.S. volunteers to fly 100 new P-40s purchased from the U.S. If U.S. aid were to flow in over the Burma Road, U.S. flyers would have to protect it. All through the summer months Colonel Chennault whipped his volunteers (dubbed the "Flying Tigers") into shape. By the time he was ready to fight, he had an added incentive: the Japanese were now the enemies of his own country...
...show this week. He had done a decently good job of bombing; he had smashed up some buildings, some airplanes. He had managed to grab a precarious foothold on a beach 260 miles from the center of Luzon's resistance. But the Army's Far Eastern Commander, lean, brilliant Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, and his grizzled Navy sidekick, Admiral Tommy Hart, had been waiting with their knives...
...Some Chinese are tall (average: 5 ft. 5 in.). Virtually all Japanese are short (average: 5 ft. 2-½ in.). > Japanese are likely to be stockier and broader-hipped than short Chinese. > Japanese - except for wrestlers - are seldom fat ; they often dry up and grow lean as they age. The Chinese often put on weight, particularly if they are prosperous (in China, with its frequent famines, being fat is esteemed as a sign of being a solid citizen). > Chinese, not as hairy as Japanese, seldom grow an impressive mustache. > Most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles. > Although both have the typical...
This lazy call to the colors is far surpassed, however, by all six articles. In a readable style greatly improved over his previous contribution to the Guardian, Edward Ames '42 warns liberals of the "Lean Years" that the war will bring, and urges them not to develop a habit of slighting labor, as a result of the war effort...
Spain's Dictator Franco showed a victor's magnanimity to the Vatican last week. He let lean, hollow-eyed Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, Archbishop of Tarragona-who incurred his enmity by staying neutral during the civil war-return to Spain after five years' exile...