Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arsenal of Democracy. Small, bellicose Vermont was the first state to declare war on the Axis-nine weeks before Pearl Harbor, Vermont began paying soldier bonuses because the U.S. was "already in a shooting war." In the green hills where Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys trod, lean, lank Vermonters turn out landing craft and gun-mounts in Burlington, aircraft ignition parts in Vergennes. The Massachusetts shoreline is one long row of shipyards and shipways, with convoys loading up. Its yards and plants produce everything from the $60 million aircraft carrier Lexington to G.I. shoelaces...
...American Antique. Saltonstall's political charm is that he strikes people as old shoe rather than old tie. His engagingly homely face is his No. 1 political asset, with its drooping eyelids, lean cheeks, long nose, wide-spaced teeth, and the famed "cowcatcher chin." That reassuring face has been termed "a well-worn American antique" and "the most distinctive face in U.S. public life." Deviousness would have a hard time finding a hiding place there. It is a face New Englanders trust...
Roly-poly Roy A. Roberts, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, able managing editor of the Kansas City Star, had written a letter to lean, leathery Major General Alexander Day Surles, head of Army Public Relations. Roberts asked to know more about Army censorship practice. In reply, General Surles retold three long-suppressed stories: 1) the Patton soldier-slapping (TIME., Nov. 29) ; 2) the Bari disaster (TIME, Dec. 27) ; 3) the loss of 23 U.S. transport planes and 410 men to Allied guns at Gela (TIME, March 27). Wrote General Surles...
...time Phil, then 29, succeeded his father as president in 1925, and increasingly after the old man died in 1932, Wrigley's aging board of directors, several of them family stockholders, leaned to ward the status quo. As readers of the Chicago Tribune, some of them also leaned toward isolationism. Now they lean toward the hope that the war will be over soon and Wrigley's can go back to the dear dead days again. As president, and per force responsible to them, Phil had to fight every step of the way to take the com pany about...
First Wingate built his force, partly from tenderfoot Tommies (many drafted from soft jobs back of the line), partly from native troops. He whipped them into a lean, knife-happy fighting force that last year slipped deep into Japanese lines, cut railroads, blew bridges, slipped out again two and a half months later...