Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announced the resignation of lean, immaculate William Phillips, onetime Ambassador to Italy, as his personal representative in India. Ambassador Phillips had been in the U.S. since last fall, when he returned, indignant, after British Foreign Office hints that he was persona non grata because of his free-India position...
...Greeted a dozen of the lean young U.S. Army Rangers who carried out the liberation at Cabanatuan...
Maryland's lean Millard Tydings, his sharp jaw jutting, his face red with wrath, rose to address his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. In his opening words there was an ominous restraint, in his tone a deadly edge. Senator Tydings, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Cross, grimly said he would speak "from a very slight knowledge of modern warfare...
...Democratic majority in the Senate fell to a new low for Franklin Roosevelt's twelve-year-old regime. To succeed the late Democratic Senator John Moses, North Dakota's Governor Fred Aandahl last week appointed lean, sandy-haired Milton R. Young, 47, farmer and Republican member of the state legislature since 1933, a politico rated "a little right of center." His appointment left the Democrats 55 of 96 Senate seats...
Married. Rouben Mamoulian, 47, lean, owl-eyed stage & screen director (Oklahoma!, Queen Christina); and Azadia Newman, 33, comely, lynx-eyed socialite portraitist, cousin of the Duchess of Windsor; he for the first time, she for the third; in Peekskill...