Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspired Discernment. Then in Natal, South Africa, (circa 1905), a lean, struggling, expatriate Hindu lawyer, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, had a political discernment of genius: in God-obsessed India the politics of liberation must take the form of a religious struggle. Doffing his European store clothes and donning a dhoti, the little man moved against the British Empire in the name of four principles: satyagraha (acceptance of Truth), ahimsa (non-violence), swadeshi (home industry), swaraj (independence). From then on, the history of Indian-British relations has been a long, painful procession of thousands of nonresisting Indian nationalists passing...
...quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance from Egypt he expressed through II Kings, 18:21 ("Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce...
...clinging tightly to its determinedly loyal following, O'Connor, Moffatt's has managed to pay off most of the debt from its new building, even to prosper with the tide of Bay Area war money. But ruddy, O'C.M. President Joseph V. Costello, who knew lean days in prewar San Francisco, decided to sell out. Reason: in his 60s, President Costello has only one nephew who is interested in the business. Said a competitor: "This was a good time to sell. It's just one of those deals where the family finally runs out of children...
...Scott, In Darr. These fiscal shenanigans were the climax in a two-year-old squabble between eccentric Mr. Scott and a lean, hard-headed ex-flier named Hal S. Darr, who now controls the company which Scott once owned and headed. Darr became board chairman in 1943. At that time the company was doing a $2,800,000-a-year business, principally with the Navy, and Scott was still the boss. But when he totted up the profits on his Navy business he found, what with renegotiation, ($300,000), taxes, etc. that he had only $90,000 left...
...Lean, dark Prince Menshikov watched the plump maiden withdraw, blushing. "And now who might that be?" he leered...