Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alike in many respects. Both have been severely racked by illness. The clinical history of Harry Hopkins would alone fill a book, and his friends talk as freely of his illnesses as they do of his other characteristics, like chain-smoking, his fierce pride, his easy rationalizations, or the lean, gaunt frame on which his clothes hang with scarecrow looseness...
...lean, gimlet-eyed Lumsden, who had risen from the ranks, became involved in a ruinous personal disagreement with his superior officers. Winston Churchill assigned Lumsden as his liaison officer with General MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific. There Lumsden faithfully did his routine duty with a heavy heart and longed for another combat command...
...dispatch from one of its ace staff members, written from a Manhattan hospital bed. It came from thin, thoughtful Brooks Atkinson, who chucked 20 years of play reviewing to become a war correspondent. During his two years in China for the Times, he watched a hungry nation fight a lean war, saw men killed, and lost his own health. Since returning to the U.S. two months ago, he has been in & out of hospitals, recovering first from jaundice, then from an operation...
Last month, when OPA drew up a tentative order for cattle ceilings and sent it to Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson for approval, cattlemen were the first to say that not even that could throw them. Feeders who buy lean cattle off the ranges and fatten them on corn promptly threatened to close out their operations. Ranchers roared that they would sell their herds, go out of business. The packers, not quite sure which side to take, said almost nothing at all, waited to see what Vinson would do. At week's end OPA waited...
Double Budget. The closest U.S. counterpart of this plan is a bill published last month by Montana's lean, well-heeled Senator James E. Murray. Murray's bill, released frankly to stimulate discussion, calls for the President to submit to Congress along with his regular budget a National Production and Employment Budget. This would contain a careful estimate of public and private spending in prospect for the coming year and make proposals for bringing the total of both, if deficient, up to the amount necessary to provide full employment. In short, the Murray proposal does not intend...