Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...material. The end of a well-conducted education must be the emancipation of the educated subject, who has become capable of governing himself through the very activity of his teachers. The Church, therefore, could not accept taking sides with those who hold colonialism as a permanent fact, who lean both on the prestige and material advantages which the mother country draws from her colony and on the pessimistic judgment [that] colored people [are] inferior to their European masters and incapable of ever finding their own happiness in freedom...
...amusement from such items as his meeting last week with his three-girl fan club. Like Gobel, Carson has a cute girl singer, Jill Corey, and they spend too much time nuzzling each other. It seems that the shy-type comic cannot survive on TV without a soubrette to lean against...
Coach McCurdy excepts his winning depth to come from French, Pete Reider, Ralph Perry, Dick Wharton, Dave Mc-Lean, and A1 Wills. Filling the remaining slots will be Ken Wilson, Dave Norris, Bob Holmes, John Read, Jim Cairns, and Otis Gates...
...steps of Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver bounded a lean, taut man carrying a briefcase. To the photographers who flashed and clicked at him, he cast a cold glance of recognition and offered the slightest suggestion of a wave with his right hand. Hurrying into the hospital to see Patient Dwight Eisenhower, the visitor was confirming the estimate of a White House staffer who had said: "We'll have a taut ship now that old gimlet eye is here...
Wildly cheered by flag-waving crowds, a lean, leathery man in an olive-green army uniform rode triumphantly into Buenos Aires one sunny day last week to take over as President of Argentina. The new headman was General Eduardo Lonardi (see box), leader of the rebellion that brought Juan Perón tumbling down...