Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the War Department's lean, hardbitten Major General John H. Hilldring: "We are still feeling our way along a path which lies more in darkness than in light...
This week long, lean Laurence Steinhardt, who heard the rumblings of Europe for three years as U.S. Ambassador at the Ankara listening post, was off again for Europe. His destination was Prague, where he would be the first U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. With him would be Major General Clarence Huebner, commander of the Third Army's V Corps, who would continue to command U.S. troops in eastern Germany and be military attache at the Prague Embassy...
Mild and Mellow. In San Francisco, lean Harry Bridges, in sardonic good humor, sat back and read his congratulatory messages (some from employers). Both West Coast business and labor heaved a sigh of relief. Employers who would never learn to love Harry Bridges had learned how to live with him and like it. The case against him had become a nuisance and a bore...
Colonel Russell W. Volckmann was a lean West Pointer from Iowa. When Bataan fell in 1942 he took to the hills and organized one of the best guerrilla teams in the Philippines. By the time the U.S. forces came back, Volckmann and his band had already cleared the Japs from a large portion of northwestern Luzon's mountains...
...Lean, leisurely Arnaldo Cortesi was schooled in Italy and England, became something of a scholar and a connoisseur of wines. He learned to like the cafe life of Rome, and the way Mussolini's trains ran on time. Leftwingers loudly accused the Times of employing a Fascist apologist; and even other Timesmen rebutted him on occasion...