Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American medical officer was making a quick survey of the sick and wounded, poking under filthy bandages with a bright pair of scissors; an enlisted man followed him with a medical kit, redressing wounds that needed immediate attention. Behind him walked a lean young captain, Austin Bach...
...instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov, he sends an officer to make the appointment a day in advance, then appears with several officers in his retinue. When his U.S. opposite number, Colonel Frank Howley, a lean, hard-working advertising man from Philadelphia, wants to see Baranov, he just walks...
...witness who claimed to represent most territory was tall, lean David Darrin: he announced himself as representing "The United Nations of the Earth Association." This, it developed, was no more than a letterhead and David Darrin. He offered a charter of his own: "The Tentative Constitution of the United Nations of the Earth." It was not examined. The World Security Charter he dismissed as "godless . . . a monstrous crime against American liberties...
Nimitz also published the names of three of McCain's task group commanders: pianoplaying, fight-loving Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan; lean, relaxed Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford; and serious, solid Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, recently graduated from jeep carriers to the big sisters...
...Under him would be both the Fourteenth and the Tenth Airmen suspected that that was the real reason for Claire Chennault's resignation: he could conclude that his superiors regarded him as good enough to build up the China air force and to fight in it in the lean days but not good enough to command it when victory was in sight. Or perhaps it was just that hard-bitten Claire Chennault was not diplomatic enough to fit in any more...