Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England last Sunday, lean young men from the U.S. took English girls punting on the placid reaches of the upper Thames. English children played at storming the walls of Festung Europa. Maimed men, for whom the war is already over, sunned themselves by convalescent homes. The drone of motors grew steadily stronger...
...Larks. At Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, Mrs. Hitchcock trained young poloists most of her adult life. When Tommy was ten she organized the Meadow Larks. Among them: F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., Raymond and Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Douglas Burden, Pete Bostwick, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney. Lean, vigorous, hard-riding Mrs. Hitchcock broke her ankle in a riding accident when she was 61, broke an arm the next year, had her last fall at 68 when her horse balked at a stiff hurdle, threw her, broke her neck...
...Behn also reported another war-induced I. T. & T. bonanza: a mounting supply of U.S. dollar exchange building up in Latin America. Brazil and Chile, fat with dollars after many lean years, poured $1,425,494 of deferred debts into I.T.& T.'s coffers last year. Last week Sosthenes Behn was in Rio, preparing to back the new trend with more I. T. & T. millions for a skyscraper office building and a big new telephone factory. And in the Argentine, where the company controls 80% of the nation's telephone business, another new factory is almost completed...
...Parade. The Congressman's one best chance to peek into the workings of the powerful little group that runs the Navy comes when the admirals seek funds. In wartime Congress invariably writes this group a blank check, and so the lean, bald top dog, Admiral Ernest J. King, conceded, while contending that the money is spent carefully ("I'm a taxpayer, too"). But at committee hearings the people's representatives can give the admirals some uneasy moments...
...other lean, thin-skinned cans, manned by youngsters fresh from colleges and high schools, screened the big ships, fought submarines, covered landings, popped Jap planes out of the coppery skies, blasted shore installations with their 5-in. rifles...