Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason why it shou d not be fed to humans too. Produced in marketable quantities, it may turn out to be a bargain. Low-grade oil sells tor slightly more than 1? per lb., and a pound of good protein has the nutrient value of 5 lbs. of lean meat...
...smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against jets. But 1,000 new units would be created, such as guerrilla-warfare squads. The end result, McNamara hopes, will be a lean, modernized reserve capable of taking up front-line positions in as little as four weeks...
Some Britons who tend to demand new station houses and an end to deficits in the same breath sniff at "Dr. Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...
Keeping Company. She voted for Romney. So did 1,419,000 other Michigan voters-a sizable segment of whom had felt the grip of the man's hand, seen the lean, jut-jawed face and the fire in the light hazel eyes-and heard his message about citizens' participation in government. All together, those voters, and those personal qualities, helped Romney defeat Governor John B. Swainson by some 78,500 votes-thereby ending a 14-year Democratic dynasty in Michigan...
...clerk, was one of the most elusive spies in the annals of British intelligence. Though he lived stylishly at the Dorchester Hotel, bought a Rolls-Royce, a Jaguar and a string of race horses, it was not until he spent a two-month leave in Moscow that Colonel Barmitage, lean, monocled chief of intelligence, made the astute decision to have him shadowed. Even then, 28 fulltime shadows and twelve auxiliaries dogged his footsteps for a year before Wraxton was caught red-handed with 185 secrets, a ham roll and the Defense Minister's cigarette case...