Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London: adroit René Massigli, a cold, analytical career diplomat who was slow to get off the Vichy wagon but has nevertheless won De Gaulle's confidence. ¶ In Washington: lean, able Henri Bonnet, who put in eleven years with the League of Nations and joined forces with De Gaulle in 1940. He and Mme. Bonnet came to the U.S. that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world...
...William Beebe, lean, hardy writer-zoologist, who has spent many a long, chilly hour in a bathysphere a half mile below the ocean surface, and has experienced the hardships of jungle living, prepared for an expedition to the Venezuela tropical forests, admitted he was "tired of roughing it." For his headquarters, Beebe reported that he had found a building originally designed as a hotel, smack in the heart of the jungle, explained: "A scientist can't study nearly as well if he's cold and wet or . . . tired...
...jailed on more colorful charges. When Lenin split the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1903) into a minority (Mensheviks) and a majority (Bolsheviks), Stalin followed Lenin. But times were hard. The Bolsheviks were only a handful of zealots. Their work was hampered by comrades who eked out lean livings as revolutionists by spying in their spare time for the Tsar's police. ("Thanks to Zhitomirsky's treachery," wrote Lenin's wife indignantly, "Comrade Kamo was caught with a suitcase containing dynamite.") There was little money with which to carry on. Stalin, always practical, undertook to make...
...Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle, who continued combat flying even after he got his star, was piloting a Flying Fortress on a mission over Belgium when seven Messerschmitts attacked. Bullets ignited an oxygen tank, which threatened to explode the Fortress' bomb load. Lean, young (36) General Castle refused to jettison the load, because U.S. troops were underneath. With two engines afire, he leveled out, and stayed at the controls while his crew bailed out. He was still in the plane when a fuel tank exploded, sent plane and pilot to the ground in flames...
...Lean, grey-bearded Vernadsky was one of Russia's best-loved scientists; tsars and Bolsheviks alike honored him. He became head of the University of Moscow's department of mineralogy in 1890, at 27; won a Stalin prize and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor; was given a big laboratory of his own in Moscow-the Vernadsky Laboratory of Geophysical Problems.* A fabulous reader, he used more books in his laboratory library each day than all his 50 assistants put together. He founded a Soviet commission on "the history of knowledge," was rated an expert...