Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press, which has usually rushed to defend the craft against the President, was this time slow to react. Lean, acidulous Drew Pearson, the capital's No. 1 gossip columnist, is not popular with his colleagues. He has always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before...
...Arthur Tedder, strategist of the air. They made the specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington. But the ultimate responsibility was Eisenhower's. And to accomplish his job Eisenhower must lean heavily on his British-American headquarters staff, the unsung heroes who attend to the complex, dull details that are an inevitable and vital part of fighting...
...Essentialists. Widely known are the aims of the Progressives: informal learning through active experience; the development of initiative, responsibility and the mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils as individuals, with teachers acting more as guides than as formal instructors. Less familiar is Essentialism, although hosts of U.S. citizens lean toward the Essentialists. This educational wing would give pupils systematic training in traditional subjects; discipline is stressed and informal learning strictly subordinated...
...time the great Gunder Hägg had finished his eighth and last U.S. race at the Triborough Stadium of New York City last week, the lean, blond Swede with the quick flash of mordant wit and the flawless leg action had done something to U.S. track performances. Without apparent exertion he had lowered the old standards that once meant championship running...
Paced by Bill Hulse in the first and second quarters, Gunder pressed him closely, his lean legs working with the mechanistic precision of the connecting rods in an idling aircraft engine. "Faster, faster," he whispered to Bill, who was whirling along in his loping gait for all he was worth...