Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lean, hook-nosed Coppolino, 34, was caught up by the patient, plodding groundwork laid by Prosecutor Frank Schaub, 45. In contrast with the flamboyant forensics of F. Lee Bailey, 33, Coppolino's cocky Boston attorney, Schaub wove a damning case showing that Coppolino had the motive, opportunity and, most of all, the scientific background for committing the murder...
...Catholic, a Northerner and an immensely competent but unobtrusive man, Thieu admits that Ky for the moment has all the advantages. The very Ky qualities that sometimes rub the generals the wrong way are electorally appealing: Ky's flamboyance in dress and dashing manner, his pilot's lean good looks and his beautiful wife. Moreover, Ky has, as Premier, been able to seed some key posts in the government with powerful supporters, such as Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of security and the political police...
...tall, fair, baby-faced lad whose pronouncements sometimes lean toward the studied and pompous, Buswell entered Harvard because he believes that it is the duty of the performer to "seek an expression peculiar to his generation, and college is one way of discovering what my generation is all about."* As a result, while most young musicians today approach the classics on bended knee, vowing technically precise, note-for-note fidelity, Buswell views his role as that of a "performer in the creative sense, equally creative as the composer...
...what she calls sub-vocalization, "The first assurance you had that you could read was when you were able to look at the symbols and say the words outloud.... This gave you great security. Knowing that the symbols you read were the words you heard made you begin to lean heavily upon the sound of words... you had become so thoroughly accustomed to the sound in connection with reading the words that you would have difficulty breaking away from the necessity of hearing the sound as you read the words." In most adults, this oral pronunciation is suppressed into...
...there is no love fall-out over Cambridge. Says a Briggs and Briggs spokesman, "We don't want that kind of business. We should lean more to Beethoven and Brahms." Although they are at this point legally entitled to sell the Fugs records, other Cambridge stores, at the suggestion of the police, have followed the cautious example of Briggs and Briggs. They would rather voluntarily ban the records than face a court case, even though they would appear to have a good chance of winning. "It's too much trouble--just for one record," explains a spokesman for Minute...