Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks. Alan Jay Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about the same height (5 ft. 6 in.), with small bones and an unweathered complexion, Lerner is 42 and could pass for a graduate student. Both men are intensely ambitious for the critical success of their work...
...othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs in order or say the words, or pray the prayers or cry the tears that must be shed because all of this can only be done when he is permitted the luxury of facing...
...long, lean years with one giddy fling...
...spaced between long plane hops, which give the press ample time to eat and write; Kennedy travels in short flights, is always behind schedule, and the lunch stop is invariably the first item to be cut from the day's itinerary. A current crack among Kennedy's lean staffers: "The Senator has said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry at night, and he expects you to do your part...
...this coincidence? Certainly, said Gould-who added that it was also "providential." As for the Providence Journal's Ogden, a lean, unpoetic and law-abiding 49-year-old, he said smilingly: "Doesn't look like me at all. I'm a distinguished, handsome chap...