Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunt, forthright commander, may refuse to make recommendations; another, brought up in the tradition of bemedaling, may lean in the other direction...
...completed engine were turned over to the U.S., and American engineers went to work. General Electric, experienced in building turbines and turbosuperchargers, was assigned to produce the engines, Bell Aircraft to build the planes. The first flight of an American model was made on Oct. i, 1942, by lean, studious Robert M. Stanley, Bell test pilot...
...less than 1% of the total imports-25 million tons-by sea. All the air imports could easily have been stowed into two Liberty ships. But the role air freight played in maintaining essential war production could not be thus measured in cold statistics. Last week a young, lean Navy lieutenant, Langdon P. Marvin Jr., chairman of WPB's Interdepartmental Air Cargo Priorities Committee, in a year-end summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads...
...Arpad's finest trait is his humanness. Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's. Says Heimer: "He's a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane -one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
...study. He was lean, tanned, lazy and alert, disconcerting without meaning to be, commanding without being arrogant, closemouthed, not because he wanted to conceal the truth from Victoria, but because it never occurred to him that she would want to know the plantation's hard life. He had married her two weeks after he met her. When he looked at her his amber-colored eyes warmed at the sight of her silvery beauty. When he saw her amazement at the museumlike rooms, where the antique chairs were like small islands on the ocean of faded carpet, his eyes danced...