Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitutionalist. This was the kind of political oratory that the House ate up. But the big point John Rankin wanted to get across was that he opposed the federal ballot-he called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"-because it was unconstitutional. His voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus...
This is an economic fact of first importance in understanding the American scene. For one thing it means that the U.S. will not go flabbily unprepared into the possible postwar depression, but on a lean, hard-muscled basis. This debt reduction, when added to the $6 billion of installment credit outstanding at the war's beginning, but since 70% paid off, means that many a U.S. citizen will be much better set to weather any lean years ahead. It also means that many an American family, free of debt, will have more cash out of income to spend...
...those who have interest in Mr. Santayana the last letter I received from him [was] dated Dec. 4, 1941. "The longer I live," he wrote, "the more I lean on nature at large and the less on the conceit of human beings...
...infantry-lean, navy-poor Southeast Asia Command last week recorded its first major kill at sea: a British submarine had destroyed a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser almost within sight of Jap-held Sumatra and Malaya. It was the most successful invasion of enemy waters by a British submarine since H.M.S. Truant torpedoed two Japanese ships on its historic, 80,000-mile cruise through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific...
...first reimbursement the Service has made for hospitalization in the Orient. The Service, now well out of its lean years, almost foundered in the mid-'30s, when it had no safeguards against families which joined just in time for Mamma to have a baby. The New York A.H.S. has since picked up a neat $8,000,000 surplus, gradually adding new benefits (e.g., paying for all drugs) for its 1,450,000 subscribers. The Service now pays a hospital bill every four minutes...