Word: leans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sergeant Hubert M. Sluss of Bristol, Va., a lean, thrice-wounded World War II paratrooper, was "pusher" for a stick of 20 paratroopers on the left side of the plane. He was last in line, and it was his duty to quarterback the jump. Luckily, all the jumpers in the plane had already "stood up and hooked up" (i.e., fastened their parachutes to the static lines in the plane). When Sluss heard the windshield break with a sound "like two cars hitting," he wasted no time. Shouting, pushing, struggling uphill as the bucking, lurching plane headed down...
...worst stories in this issue would rank with the best in one of the Lampoon's lean years. And the novelty of the "Picture History of Harvard-Yale Football" is refreshing though the article is not consistently well-done...
...once enthusiastic and objective about his individual players. Brownell, he admits, at number one, can't hope to fill Ufford's spacious shoes, yet in this lean year for giants he will do very well. He pulled the biggest upset of last season by knocking off Navy's Potter in the individual championships. He is lanky, an excellent retriever, and puts on plenty of hard, low pressure. Outs and drives win his matches. He won't dazzle an opponent, he'll wear...
This "movement" is the political threat to India. The border peoples-the lean-shanked Nagas, the scrappy Gurkhas, the gentle aboriginal Lepchas-are closer in racial appearance to Tibet than to India; they do not like Indians at all, and might well respond to sly Communist demands for "independence...
Most of them were healthy and spring-legged, though lean; but some had malaria, tuberculosis or hookworm. In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team-Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S. After medical examination, the first lot of evacuees were flown to Formosa...