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Word: leanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When lean, pallid Lord Halifax emerged, reporters ran up to find out what had happened in Round Two. In his best dash-it-all manner, Lord Halifax replied: "Oh, I forgot to mention that. Rather an oversight. Too bad, wasn't it?" Thus coolly, the British Ambassador dismissed Mr. Hull's rage as a teacup tempest, and the incident was closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Oversight | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Although this volume tells the climax of the story (Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dream of the seven fat and the seven lean kine, his rise to be "Lord over Egypt" and his reunion with his father, Jacob, and his errant brothers), it is so slow-paced and philosophical that it seems static, despite the rapid development of its action. For it lacks the intense excitement of the scenes in which Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Masterpiece | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

London's busy gossipers rumored that a postwar candidate for the House of Commons, inevitable doorway to British politics, may be General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. Monty seems to lean toward the third-string Liberal Party, but either of the two bigger ones (Conservative, Labor) would be happy to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Note for Voters | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Lean, tough and bull-voiced, Engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: By a Damsite | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...carriers the paratroops dozed, or pretended to. They were the Army's elite, the tough boys - lean, wiry men clad in green camouflaged battle dress, faces stained with cocoa and linseed oil. ("We'll have something to eat if our rations run out.") They carried the fanciest arms, and the most primitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invasion: June Night: Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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