Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long scanned the official press for clues as to which of the Borbóns Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 75, might pick to fill the long-vacant throne. Monarchist activists pin their hopes on exiled Pretender Don Juan, 55, a moderate who favors evolution toward parliamentary democracy. Many Falangist regulars lean toward his son, Juan Carlos, 30, in the belief that the carefully schooled younger man would prove willing to stick with the regime's less flexible principles...
...Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some of the outsiders shed their uniforms (ties and suits), strolled the streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting in the Greyhound bus terminal...
...Hampshire (26): Gene has 20 pledged votes; 6 others lean to H.H.H...
Kansas (38): Bound by the unit rule, all lean to Humphrey...
...course, there are no seats. Instead, spectators can perch on random, wooden-towered scaffoldings with platforms, unless they prefer to sit on the floor or lean against a wall. The cast is casually unclothed. The men are dressed, as it were, in black jockstraps. The women are braless beneath their shirts, and on some nights topless, if they are in a mood to improvise. The cast begins speaking in tongues, but English is the least of them. The program says that the play is "somewhat like Euripides' The Bacchae," but no one is likely to recognize it. Anyway, thought...