Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much of the comeback resulted from General Dynamics' decision to write off the losses from its Convair 880 and 990 jets in a single year (1961) instead of spreading them over several years, and its prudent use of tax advantages. But the black ink also reflected a newly lean, hard look in the company's top management...
...demonstrated why. Seated on a high wooden chair, his right hand clenched in a fist, Klemperer led the Philadelphia through performances of Beethoven's Eroica and Pastoral symphonies that were wonders of clarity and searching detail. Under Klemperer, the familiar, voluptuous Philadelphia sound faded away; the orchestra sounded lean and meticulously responsive as it played at tempi more deliberate than any other conductor would dare use (the New York Times's Harold Schonberg, who likes to clock performances, reported that the Pastoral Symphony took 50 minutes instead of the customary...
...lean over backwards to avoid discrimination," Welch said. He decried charges that Birchers practice religious and racial bigotry as "the most rotten of all smears...
Fabled Rages. Living alumni still shiver at the memory of lean, eagle-beaked Alfred E. Stearns, the devout, athletic zealot who ruled Andover for 30 years prior to 1933. Stearns hired the fabled Latinist Georgie Hinman, who jabbed penknives into his wooden leg, chewed pencils in half, caromed erasers off thick skulls, and made students flush bad translations down the toilets. Yet it was also Stearns who steered Andover toward opulence. In 1908 he took over the seminary's buildings when that institution fell on bad times and slunk off to Harvard. He raised $1,000,000 for teachers...
...fanatic football. He lashes his Huskies through practice sessions on the dead run, stages man-to-man duels between competing linemen, expects injured players to get off the field under their own power. "When the going gets tough," says Owens, "the tough get going." This year Owens has a lean, agile line that averages 6 ft. 2 in., 208 Ibs. per man, and 22 returning lettermen, including Center Ray Mansfield and All-Coast Halfback Charley Mitchell, who set up the crucial touchdown against Purdue with a dazzling 24-yd. run. Owens sheds no crocodile tears over his team...