Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed recently in Leningrad after burying mosaics to save them from Nazi shells. A large mural depicts a pilot, a tankman and a tommy-gunner against a background of a mailclad Muscovite warrior standing defiantly beneath the walls of the ancient Kremlin. Three-bank escalators carry crowds of lean grim-faced workers from the glittering platforms to the grey streets...
...hint of what this means, citizens could remember the Government's recent announcement that 49,000 planes were produced last year. Left for the man in the street will be what officials term "a lean but healthy civilian economy." To many who have not yet felt the full pinch of war, the degree of leanness will be surprising before year...
...House plan and the integration of Freshmen. He instilled the mass of students with the will for scholastic achievement. His far-sighted financial planning protected the Harvard faculty from salary cuts during the great depression; he did not forget, as he pointed out, that in the Old Testament, seven lean years followed the seven fat ones. As a forward-looking citizen he championed the League of Nations. A capable administrator, he had an amazing ability to arrange details. The plan for the House system, figured down to the forks and spoons for the dining halls, was all ready when Edward...
...jail when his selection was announced in TIME: Mohandas K. Gandhi had just launched civil disobedience to get the British out of India. Next year was "a lean year for everybody," as old Ramsay MacDonald put it: Man of 1931 was Pierre Laval, chosen for having steered France prosperously through twelve months which had meant breadlines and apple sellers in almost every other land. (Laval is one choice we're not very proud to look back...
Most soldiers, when you question them, say: "There doesn't seem much time to think about Christmas this year, and anyway the setting is all screwy." Which, of course, it is. It is a far cry from carol singers tramping through the snow to the lean, gaunt, green-garbed Americans squirming through drip ping man-high Kunai grass, or sniping Japs from the fronded tops of coconut palms, or flitting like phantoms from tree to tree in the weird firefly-spangled jungle...