Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams of the Boston Red Sox looked as fit as an Indian buck. After a winter out of doors, including a month of lazy fishing at the edge of the Florida Everglades, he was tanned to a light mahogany. His brownish green eyes were clear and sharp, his face lean, the big hands that wrapped around the handle of his 34-oz. Louisville Slugger were calloused and hard. He had 198 lbs., mostly well-trained muscle, tucked away on his 6 ft. 3¾ in. frame. He expected, he conceded, "to have a pretty good year." But as usual...
Menotti, a lean, dark-eyed, hungry-looking man of 38, got the idea for his new opera from reading about a refugee who committed suicide when she was turned down for a visa. Says Menotti: "I know we must have some bureaucracy . . . but I cannot abide little people who, given a little power, wield it inflexibly and cruelly...
...Deseret News's dogmatism, that is, nevertheless, the reason for its success. The official voice of the church, the News is run by Editor and General Manager Mark Edward Petersen, 49, who is also one of the Twelve Apostles (a high governing body) of the Mormon Church. A lean, intense and handsome man, Petersen started out as a News cub at 20 and is still very much a newsman; his staffers' call him "Mark," instead of "Brother," as is customary with other high church dignitaries. Obedient to the Mormon "Word of Wisdom" no News staffer smokes or drinks...
...stockholders, Du Pont's lean, able President Crawford H. Greenewalt last week totted up the score on a year of "transition from a sellers' to a buyers' market." His cheerful finding: "No serious dislocation or detriment to the company's business...
Nobody else wanted the old sloop; for years she had been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, grizzle-bearded Captain Joshua Slocum desperately wanted the 36-footer, and he got her. By the time he had put in a year's work rebuilding the Spray into a staunch, well-found craft, he was ready to put to sea. One spring day in 1895, with only Slocum aboard, the Spray sailed out of Boston harbor on what turned out to be a 46,000-mile voyage. At 51, Joshua Slocum...