Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ulcers are another man's high blood pressure. Ever since Hippocrates, doctors have believed that certain kinds of people lean toward certain kinds of diseases. Many a wild guess has been made about body types (e.g., tall, thin people get tuberculosis; short, fat ones get apoplexy). Last week two Manhattan doctors came out with a new formula, to help predict every man's psychosomatic risks...
...Filipinos last week, it looked like Appomattox. Lean young Luis Taruc (34), canebrake Marxist and supreme commander of the outlawed Hukbalahaps (TIME, May 31), had come out of hiding to accept the government's unconditional amnesty for himself and some 50,000 followers...
...Oklahoma's rolling wheatlands this spring, all signs pointed to a lean year. Stalks that normally would have been thigh-high were hardly more than stubble; some fields were so thin that farmers plowed them under. Experts forecast that Oklahoma, which harvested an elevator-busting 104 million bushels in 1947, would bring home this year only 74 million bushels...
Then there were the ladies. Bustling and beribboned, Republican women were on hand in droves. Eyeing them, the New York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...
...last man to worry about such delays was probably Salvatore Cinquemani, a lean, leathery, 65-year-old Sicilian with a point of view of his own. By next month Salvatore would be the only private tenant left on U.N.'s rubble-covered property. His establishment was tucked in a corner of the site, overlooking the East River: two cinder-packed bocce courts (bocce is the Italian form of outdoor bowling), surrounded by knee-high board fences. Salvatore's customers were mostly shirt-sleeved, elderly men. When they were not playing they sat on orange crates and empty nail...