Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dragon fighters, especially from Vermont, should be lean, crabby, clipped and pithy in speech. Listening to the invective of Communist spokesmen, Austin could be as grimly attentive as Hawthorne's Great Stone Face. There, any resemblance to the legendary Yankee ends...
...straight plays offer an even more interesting selection for this weekend than the musicals. Hits like Death of a Salesman or Madwoman Challiot are now on the road, but the current fare is by no means lean...
...lean, trim man with a Pepsodent smile and a face that reminded feature writers of Robert Taylor, and he moved fast. Johnston was only 46 when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1942 elected him its president, the youngest in its history. He kept on preaching, urging the old guard to recognize the reality of the New Deal and labor's growth, preaching to labor the way of fruitful cooperation with management...
...Tegucigalpa bank one morning last week, Joe Silverthorne grasped ten $1,000 bills in his fist, waved them jubilantly in the face of a friend. "You see these?" gloated the lean, pistol-packing Texan. "Well, when I get to Miami next month, I'm going to swap them for a $10,000 bill. I've never had a $10,000 bill, but I'm going to get one and wave it under the nose of every s.o.b. in Tegucigalpa...
...When lean, handsome William Remington, Commerce Department economist, was accused of being a Communist back in 1948, he defended himself with such injured but manly firmness that he won what seemed to be vindication of a sort. The top U.S. loyalty review board sent him back to his $10,330-a-year job. The New Yorker ran a 24-column article about his ordeal. Meanwhile, Remington sued for $100,000 and got an out-of-court settlement from the network and sponsor of a television program on which onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley had affirmed her accusations-that...