Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Britain's lean, aging (76) Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell. "When you go back to Prague," he rasped, "tell your employers that the next time we have an international congress of philosophy we'd prefer that they send someone not so crude." Looking like an indignant owl, New York University's Sidney Hook turned his brisk Brooklyn accent against Kolman: "You talk about economic democracy [in Russia]. You mean economic equality. But there is an equality in freedom and equality in slavery...
Like a Board. A lean French Canadian taxi driver, John Lecomte, 36, joined up with his brother-in-law, Einer Frykberg. They left Frykberg's hardware store to his wife, drove Lecomte's taxi in as far as they could, and headed into the bush. Bartender John York hiked 15 miles in & out, then found that he had forgotten to note the numbers of his claim tags. He had to go through it all again...
...twelve months lean, hard-bitten Charles M. White, president of Republic Steel Corp., has been playing two-handed poker for gigantic stakes. His opponent: War Assets Administrator Jess Larson. The stakes: the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace and coke plant, one of the world's largest...
...Ames laid out $15,000 for surveys on the saving, spending and reading habits of the people who live along Midwestern Main Streets, in towns of 25,000 & under. This gave him plenty of ammunition to lay siege to advertisers. His editorial staff will be small, and lean heavily on outside "name" writers on science, sports, foreign affairs. Small-town business and travel stories-and plenty of recipes-will provide the local touch...
...dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...