Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing in life will delight the spirit of a true Irishman the way a pack of lean hounds will be leppin' in full cry with pink-coated riders on fine, gallant horses just on the tails of them. Farmer Larry Costello is a true Irishman, but when the Galway Blazers, the most famous hunt in all Ireland, bore down on his property, what did Larry do? He beat on buckets to drive the fox into the gorse and thwart the chase entirely...
Arizona voters sent him back twice and elected him for a fourth term. A lean, wiry youngster in his 30s, he was a familiar figure on the Hill, bicycling to work from his Georgetown home, pitching for the Democrats in the annual House baseball game...
Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
Syndication of the strips in 1915 launched the period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
This led to uncomfortable situations on occasions, Spear recalls. Once in 1946, one of the lean years of "informal" football, the Pepman was bound for his home in Providence despite the scheduled rally the same evening...