Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foursquare with the compass" with wide streets and ten-acre blocks, was a center of Western commerce and trade, hub of three railroads, four airlines, four main highways. It is one of the cleanest and friendliest cities in the U.S., and one of the healthiest. The descendants of the lean and desperate Mormon pioneers have a well-fed, well-dressed, freshly scrubbed and glowing look. Mormon women walk with a high-bosomed and girdleless litheness which seems a little startling to visitors...
Great Expectations. Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues do for Dickens what Laurence Olivier did for Shakespeare (TIME...
...scattered through London, proclaiming that "We Work or Want," and calling for yet another example of the old "British Grit." Americans, seeing them, and already impressed with the tired fight of the British people against war's nasty afterbirth, accept them as one more indication of the austere and lean life in 1947 England. But an interesting reaction seems to be setting in among the British themselves. "England is not so badly off" is a common answer to sympathetic questions about conditions, and there seems to be a new resentment of American pity and the government's back...
...head of this crowd-catching public institution (financed by the Chicago Park Board), is one of the fastest rising zoo directors in the country: lean, grey-haired R. Marlin Perkins, who has devoted most of his 42 years to studying, mothering, training, understanding, exploiting and explaining specimens of the animal kingdom from blacksnakes to baboons...
Great Expectations. A fine Dickens story, brought vividly to the screen by Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues (TIME...