Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wise in the Ways. Within 48 hours after the robbery. New York police had got a tip and picked up three suspects: Roger Clark, 29. Allan Kuhn, 26, and Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy, 27, all habitués of Miami Beach spas. They were lean, tanned fun lovers who apparently made their living as beach boys and instructors in swimming, surfing and undersea diving. All were members of a loose fraternity of similarly inclined young men who earn untidy amounts of money entertaining lonely middle-aged ladies...
...almost looked as if winning the elections was the worst thing that could have happened to the Democrats in New York State. For 29 lean years they had been in the minority in both of Albany's legislative chambers. After the Johnson landslide, they awoke to find that they were all set to take over - except that they did not seem to know how. Intent on blunting the new majority's power, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller quickly summoned a special session of the old legislature, forced through a reapportionment bill favoring Republicans and two measures that...
...DeBakey, who developed the operation and has already done it 6,500 times, the procedure was routine. But alter he made a 6-in. incision through the duke's lean abdominal wall, the surgeon discovered that the aneurysm was even bigger than expected. 'The size of a small cantaloupe or large grapefruit," he reported. Instead of a simple balloon shape with a neat "stalk," it was "fusiform," with its base extending along the aorta. Worse, the wall of the aorta had eroded until it was on the point of rupturing...
Logical Customers. The new executive line-up is meant to maintain the initiative. Tooker will administer the company and oversee investments, which lean more strongly than in most companies on Government bonds but also stress mortgages on one-family homes ($500 million worth) occupied by the kind of people who are logical customers for multiple insurance. Meanwhile, DeWitt will concentrate on Travelers' newest venture. The company is moving overseas. Beginning with insurance on the growing number of U.S. corporations and families at work abroad, it intends to go on from there to spread its umbrellas around the world...
...have different cuts, so if you can't fit into one particular brand, try another one. When laced, the boot should feel tight and should really bother you a little, but make sure that your toes are not pinched. The heel should not move upwards when you walk or lean forward...