Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become derives from his boyhood in the Abilene, Kans, of the 1890s. Ike and his brothers were taught to be mindful of their parents and their Bibles ("there was nothing sad about their religion"). The youngsters played tag on the barn roof and dared one another to lean over the edge, fished lazily for catfish in Mud Creek and the Smoky Hill River, fanned imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before. One October evening after school Ike nobly bore...
...politician, lean Ivy Leaguer (Harvard '23) Joe Clark is equally at home tossing off a bourbon and water with the boys in the back room, talking earnestly and persuasively to small groups of do-gooders, or delivering the sort of spread-eagle oratory that Clark himself sometimes calls "ranting and roaring." His most effective issue so far has been Jim Duff's Senate absenteeism. Pointing to an empty chair on the speaker's platform, Clark cries: "That's where the junior Senator from Pennsylvania is supposed to be sitting, but he is almost never there...
...mile tour. He scolded an ardent Republican lady who asked questions about Adlai Stevenson's divorce ("I think that any personal life of a candidate should not be a proper political issue"). He sidestepped the political credits and debits of the World Series ("I lean to the Dodgers, but my wife is a Yankee fan"). He pointedly omitted to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy to the speakers' stand at Milwaukee's Marquette University, not even mentioning his name. Along Nixon's way in Milwaukee a placard proclaimed: LOCK...
...America, whose 700,000 Michigan members are regularly assessed for some $2,600,000 for educational work that has never been known to hurt the Democratic cause in populous Wayne County (Detroit). "Look what we're up against," says Feikens, an ardent youngish (38) lawyer with the lean and hungry mien of a Packard dealer. "This is the best-heeled, toughest political gang in the country...
Some like their ballet new, lean and glinting; they favor the New York City Ballet. Some like it pageantesque, formal and applauseworthy; they favor London's Sadler's Wells. Some like it storyful, mellow and magical; they had almost no place to turn except Copenhagen, where the Royal Danish Ballet spun comfortably on its 200-year-old tradition, rarely ventured into the outside world (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). But last week the Danes were in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, and provided crowds with something to cherish for years to come...