Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour, a wage comparable to that skilled labor receives in Mexico.They do not argue, do not agitate, do not complain; if they do, they can always be turned in as border jumpers. Farmers have built good barracks for some, but others live wretchedly, taking shelter in caves or rude lean-tos, cooking in the fields, washing in irrigation ditches...
...driving Stanky spirit is one big reason why the New York Giants may be a serious pennant contender again this year, for the first time in thirteen lean seasons. During the last half of last season, while the Philadelphia Whiz Kids were staggering erratically to the pennant (won m the last game of the season), Durocher's Giants were playing the best ball (50 victories in 72 games) in the National League. Durocher sees no reason why the Giants should not continue that pennant-winning pace. "We're a far better ball club now than at this time...
Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
...lean, tight-lipped man in a neat brown suit presented himself in Federal Judge Henry Goddard's Manhattan courtroom. The judge said briefly: "You are surrendering to the marshal?" Said the lean man: "Yes, sir." A deputy marshal led Alger Hiss away to a detention cell...
Colonel Growdon, a lean, carrot-topped tanker with the cold blue eyes and competent air of a professional fighting man, rode at the van. His Pattons snorted through desolate villages, past a British Churchill tank destroyed in the defense of Seoul last year, past South Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering...