Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional soldier and a former Belgrade lawyer are the leaders of the Yugoslav forces. The soldier is Colonel Drazha Mihailovitch, a lean, pince-nezed man of 47 who in World War I captured an enemy battery of heavy artillery with a single machine gun. Dragisha Vasitch, the lawyer, was an Army reserve officer, but was better known as a writer and the founder of the Serbian Cultural Club...
Around its conference tables last week, the Gestapo was none too pleased with itself. One of its biggest jobs was not getting done. Throughout Occupied Europe pudgy Heinrich Himmler and his lean Chief Executioner Reinhard Heydrich kept hanging and shooting rebels. But still the revolt went...
Virtually raised on famed U. S. monthlies, lean, 51-year-old Editor Allen, once a Harvard English instructor, got his publishing start in 1914 as assistant to the Atlantic Monthly's Editor Ellery Sedgwick, edited Century, has himself contributed to most of the slick-paper magazines. Says he of his new job: "It doesn't dismay me at all to be working for a magazine that is 91 years old, and looks superficially as though it were built to an old pattern...
Mexico, while plumping 1,000% for the State Department deal, also had reason to lean a bit toward the Parish compromise. Since Mexico kicked the gringos back up north, its oil properties have been limping and stalling. Last year's production was 40,300,000 bbl.-compared to 46,500,000 bbl. in the last pre-expropriation year. Exploration has almost stopped. Some of the movable equipment has been shipped to Japan for scrap, in exchange for the kind of ready cash that used to pour in from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find...
...Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, recently stated upon his return from South America that the mass of the people in South America and Central America are overwhelmingly pro-democratic, while the upper classes in some of the countries lean away from democratic sympathies...