Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Umberto ("The Brain") Terracini is Togliatti's lean, charming second-in-command. He is the very model of double-breasted fastidiousness; when he succeeded Saragat as Assembly president and prepared to take over his official residence, a conversation took place which would have shocked less cultured Communists...
Whatever the prospects of eventual union, in rationed Holland last week lean and shabby Dutch, once stout and well-dressed, were hoarding their 40 weekly cigarets, while across the border in Belgium men with money ate lobster, steaks, butter, and drank French wine. Many Dutch women still wore ski trousers and ski boots while their Brussels sisters chatted over their tea in chic comfort...
Last week a reporter of the Paris newspaper France-Soir visited the expropriated Monsieur Garden, found him in shirtsleeves in a shabby little house. Said the lean old man: "The Tremolin coal trust, c'est moil" Then Gardon led the reporter to his backyard to see the mine fields. "There it is," said Gardon. "I see nothing," replied the puzzled reporter. "Voila, behind the bush...
...master couldn't keep order in study hall. The boys pitched pennies and lumps of coal around the room. So the headmaster fired him, and hurried off to Yale for another. In Harry Alfred Peters, only 23 but lean and hard, he found his man. Peters began his teaching career by tossing the two toughest troublemakers out on their ears...
...Johnson and Kay Walsh make the most of some beautiful opportunities. Miss Johnson has a subtly balanced melancholic power, and an ability to convey complex emotions simply, which derive from the great days of the stage, and are almost never seen in a film. And the excellent director, David Lean (In Which We Serve, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter), has again rendered Mr. Coward as rich a service as Mr. Coward has rendered...