Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developed an insatiable curiosity about China and her way of life. As military attache at the U.S. legation in Peiping, his reports were concise, but packed with information. Soon he won the reputation of being an authority on Chinese affairs. He studied in books and at first hand. His lean, leathery figure, bedroll and knapsack slung over his shoulder, became a familiar one, tramping across China's flat, dusty, northern countryside. He liked to mingle with the chiupa, the rugged riflemen who, since the Manchu dynasty was overthrown (1911), have borne the burden of their nation's endless...
...This morning on this sandy beach, where nipa huts lean crazily, columns of Filipinos began to pass by. Their clothes were patched and the gay colors faded, but in their faces was dignity above any other native race we have encountered...
...complicated deceptive tactics of the coastal campaign he needed more good soldiers than George Kenney and his airmen, and he had them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were...
F.F.I. Colonel Rol-Tanguy is a lean, hard-bitten Parisian who, in the days when he used to be a boilermaker, was known simply as Tanguy. He became Rol when he headed the French section of the International Brigade in Spain. As Colonel Rol-Tanguy he headed the F.F.I, in the Ile-de-France region (Paris plus the Departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise). Last August, during the battle of Paris, the Swedish Minister and a French military delegate negotiated an armistice with the German garrison. But Colonel Rol-Tanguy denounced it, ordered his Maquis to continue street fighting...
...well-oiled campaign moved on. On board his train, Dewey had a minimum of advisers: Speechwriter Elliott Bell, one-time New York Timesman; Secretary Paul Lockwood, an associate from his D.A. days; Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. Tall, lean Hamilton Gaddis, patronage dispenser of the Dewey Albany administration, preceded the train as advance agent. Behind the lines, a mammoth research bureau, occupying the top floor of Albany's De Witt Clinton Hotel, steadily went on digging up facts & figures...