Word: leanness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Joe was his friend, lean, long-nosed Harry Bridges, there to negotiate on behalf of his own West Coast longshoremen. Smart, articulate Mr. Bridges, who denounced "the capitalist war" until Russia was attacked in 1941, expected no trouble. The operators, he was sure, would give him $1.38 an hour, up from $1.15. So Harry helped Joe, pouncing like a ferret at the operators when he saw an opening...
...Saltonstall has his way, the Exeter boy of tomorrow will spend more time studying music and art ("and I don't just mean appreciation") and working with woods and metals in shops. Bill Saltonstall, a handy man himself, is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and gangling, with the same ski-run jaw and long nose as his cousin, Senator Leverett Saltonstall. At Harvard, Bill won letters in football, crew and hockey, and still helps coach the Exeter hockey...
Billy's big assets were his youth (at 28 he was in his prime), speed and the best left hook in boxing. He had come out of the Army weighing a blubbery 204; now his legs were lean, his shoulders solid. His strategy: "Make Louis back up . . . when you do, he loses half of his effectiveness...
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Prokofiev conducting; Disc, 11 sides). Nothing like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. This is lean, unsentimental music, composed for a Soviet ballet in 1935. It has never been recorded in the U.S. Performance: good...
...discover what kind of noises Allied music had been producing behind the din of war. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the citizens of Prague opened a four-week Government-financed International Music Festival. Main courses in the feast: jarry American spice and the lean tonal dishes of modernists in Russia, France and England...