Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's two-man Davis Cup team-lean Lennart Bergelin and stocky little Torsten Johansson-finally reached the end of the line. Mostly hothouse trained on flossy indoor courts, they had managed with luck and Nordic determination to cop the European crown. Last week in the interzone final at Forest Hills, the U.S. squad blew the Swedes off the court, 5-0. U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer and ex-Champion Frank Parker breezed through their singles matches with the loss of just one set; National Doubles Champions Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy just squeezed out an 8-6 fifth...
...Fare of Power. Tito has obliged. Since the lean days of mountain fighting, his girth has increased considerably on the rich fare of power (and on sweets). He likes good eating. At official banquets, he serves whole roast boars, huge Polish hams, gallons of Dalmatian wine. Like his master, Tito's favorite Alsatian dog Tiger has also put on weight...
...ceilings on meat were not the only cause, or the main one. The main reason was that cattle and hog raisers had sent every animal they could to market, to cash in when ceilings had been off. Lean cattle were again going to feeder lots to be held in the expectation that ceilings would again be lifted...
...Thomas backs his talk with action he will have united support. The party desperately needs all the support it can get but not at the expense of discrediting the loyal band of workers who have sweated through the lean years...
Last week they got the rest of the story: Syria's Gazelle Boy had been committed to a lunatic asylum, was there lapping water from a spring and placidly grazing on the lawn. With the story went a picture of the boy (see cut). He was a lean, trim youngster, apparently used to wearing clothes (his arms were tanned, his body fairly white), obviously in need of a haircut and a bath-and perhaps a new pressagent...