Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named to command MATS was lean, able Major General Laurence S. Kuter, U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, who recently turned down a post as CAB chairman, when the Senate refused to let him keep his rank and higher Army pay on the new job. He would take over the command of MATS on March...
...defense asked witness Lieut. Colonel Austin J. Montgomery how he could be sure the word Wada used was "concern." Said lean, bitter Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
...Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything. He is rarely a talker, usually a listener -a lanky, youthful but somehow worn-looking young man who is painfully awkward...
...Lean, velvet-voiced Eric Sevareid quit as CBS's Washington bureau chief to give full time to newscasting, and tossed a few hard words over his shoulder: "Radio reporting is superficial [and] sloppy. The stream runs purer than in newspaper reporting but not so deep. Radio reporters . . . know that they won't be able to use more than a few lines in most stories [so] they quit digging. I think I'd be happier writing for print...
Larry Kuter (rhymes with pewter), a lean West Pointer ('27), looked like just the man to carry out the Finletter Commission's prescription for a closer tie between the Government's military and civil air branches. Trained as a bomber pilot, he became a brigadier general at 36 (the Army's youngest). He got to be known as a "fair-haired boy" of General Hap Arnold, served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, commanded a division of bombers in England, helped to plan and carry out the strategic bombings of Japan, was awarded the Distinguished Service...