Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chop. Laos lies, by historical accident, in the shape of a lean lamb chop among six quarreling neighbors. To the Communist countries beyond the mists and granite-blue mountains to the north, Laos in anarchy provides the vital corridor through which to fuel an incessant guerrilla warfare against South Viet...
...right-but there were doubts that his left would ever be very dangerous. Moreover, Johansson still has not corrected the basic mistake of dropping his right hand, which last time left him open to Patterson's left hook. But the way Ingo explains his defeat, he tried to lean back from Patterson's left instead of ducking under it. This time, he says, he will duck...
...behind the Skymaster is Cessna President Dwane L. Wallace, 49, a lean, rawboned management pilot who drove Cessna ahead of Beech Aircraft Corp. as the No. 1 maker of private planes for the first time in 1959 (TIME, April 27, 1959)- Though Cessna's total sales of $103 million were down 2% for fiscal 1960 (year ending Sept. 30), owing to a drop in military orders for Cessna's air force training jets, there was no slackening of demand for private planes or in the pace of the company's diversification...
...January 1953, he went to work as special writer for Newsweek, within ten months was managing editor. He rose to editor in 1956, seemed to have settled down for the first time in his career. But last week lean and peripatetic Denson, 55, moved once more. His new assignment: editor of the New York Herald Tribune. "Like coming home," said Denson, who in his 20s worked in the Tub's Washington bureau...
...Desiring, by Menna Gallie. In her brisk, garrulous and charming fashion, Novelist Gallie has created a dogged Welsh math teacher who keeps his village innocence amid the lean fleshpots and fat sophistries of an English university...