Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain fell, a sleety, chilling March drizzle. Up the green slopes of Arlington Cemetery rolled a black limousine. On a roadway near a freshly dug grave it stopped. Inside, Franklin Roosevelt leaned back against the beige upholstery and looked out on a dismal scene. They were burying big, bluff "Pa" Watson, the man whose boisterous laugh and high good humor had never failed to cheer the President. If Franklin Roosevelt's lean, set face showed any emotion, no one could record it. The rain streaming down the windows curtained the man within. He was left to himself...
...assassin, a lean, pale, 26-year-old Egyptian lawyer named Mahmud Issawi, submitted impassively to arrest. To the police he arrogantly proclaimed the pro-Naziism which had earned him long internment. He had been released last Autumn-by order of Maher Pasha...
Pirates and Preachers. Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, the third son of a Baptist minister in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was descended from a distinguished line of New England pirates and preachers. His father was "so fat he could not lean over"; his mother was "a piece of frail Dresden china." Edward, slight, studious, with keen, greyish eyes and a musical voice, failed his physical examination for West Point. He studied briefly in Germany and at Union College, read law by himself and set up as a lawyer. In two years he had one case...
...supply of other types of meat will be just as lean, Armour's Eastwood reported. Said he: "Our best information now is that we will have 30% fewer hogs than came to market in 1944. The lamb outlook is for a reduction...
Bill Simpson is 6 ft.11 in. tall, lean and hard; he wears splendidly tailored battle jackets and trousers which fit him perfectly. But he is not pompous or dramatic, and is considered to be something like Omar Bradley in fatherly devotion to his troops. Despite his arguments with Patton, he is a great believer in all kinds of machines- especially artillery- which save U.S. lives...