Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini's last interview as Duce was published last week. * On June 6, a month and a half before his downfall, Il Duce talked to a correspondent of Lugano's Carriere del Ticino, a minor Swiss, Italian-language newspaper. He was suffering from stomach ulcers, appeared lean and sad. But, above all, he seemed anxious to justify his great mistake...
...months ago Lawyer Watson decided that if the G.O.P. was to clear its skirts of isolationism, quick action had to be taken. He organized his association, promptly got financial help ($40,000) from lean, cadaverous, Denison B. Hull, wealthy Chicago manufacturer of hearing devices. Lawyer Watson's tactics were to go to the people, conduct an educational, door-to-door campaign to wake up the G.O.P. He denied that his group was a stalking-horse for Wendell Willkie, but old-line GOPoliticos did not believe...
...Mountains. When he could not stand Nazi domination any longer, Batouvas joined other Greeks in Crete's mountain fastness and turned from a mild, slightly paunchy Greek into a hardbitten, tough guerrilla warrior. He grew lean, learned to live on one solid meal daily; he began to develop a consummate hatred for Germans and Italians. At first he was just a guerrilla among many hundreds. Then his head for business asserted itself. Today Manolis Batouvas is one of the three main guerrilla leaders on the island. Of course Batouvas is not his real name, just as George Petrakis...
...baby or two. Insulted, Taro picks a quarrel with his old U.S. friend O'Hara. But because Taro's father is now Minister of Propaganda, the two men are not allowed to fight. Instead they choose deputies to fight for them. O'Hara's lean boxer is Lefty (Robert Ryan). Taro's fighter is a King Konglike jujitsu expert (Mike Mazurki). Their boxer-wrestler battle symbolizes the U.S.-Jap war. It is as savage as anything in the history of screen roughhouse. But as symbol, the result is rather ominous. Ryan finally punches...
Fats was playing a harmonium at the age of five. Born on Manhattan's West 134th Street, he grew up next door to P.S. 89. This made it easy for his mother, who had eleven other children, to lean out of the window and call, "How's Tom doin'?" His father was pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now the largest Baptist congregation in the world, where Tom took up the organ...