Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, in action at a Stimson press conference. Mr. Lovett said that Great Britain at present trains about 10,000 pilots a year in the British Isles,* told the reporters to draw their own conclusion-evidently blockaded Britain will have to lean heavily on the U.S. for pilot training...
Commanding the destroyer Kelly in battle off the coast of Crete, lean, handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten made a safe escape as the ship rolled over and sank within 70 seconds of a direct hit by a German dive bomber. (The Germans had reported the Kelly officially sunk once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...chops for lunch yesterday, you ate what was for most British civilians a week's ration of meat. Britain's larder is lower than it has been since the lean days of 1917, when food stocks fell within six weeks of exhaustion. For the first time since World War II began, Germans are eating better than are Britons...
Radio listeners last week heard a piece of music inspired by a baseball team. Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for the Dodgers on his WOR-Mutual program, Russell Bennett's Notebook. To the Dodgers and their music-loving President Larry MacPhail, the symphony was a great comfort. Although they were still out in front in the National League, they had just lost a game in Pittsburgh, which ended a seven-game winning streak...
Never a newspaperman, lean, 52-year-old James Boyd owns a 3,000-acre estate m Southern Pines (pop. 3,225). He is known to the natives as a right smart hunter and horseman, a fine poker player, a friend to plain citizens. Several years ago at his gardener's funeral, when the preacher failed to appear, he preached a sermon that is still remembered...