Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only 35 to Baker's 61, L.B. (for Lewis Bergman) Maytag Jr. is a lean, even-tempered member of the washing-machine clan. But except for sizable stock holdings, Colorado-raised Bud Maytag long ago spun off all interest in the family firm (now run by his cousin...
...This is the language of responsibility." They handed down to the 20th century a lean, taut prose that reflected a cooler, grimmer appraisal of life. "I believe that force is the ultima ratio" wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the war for three years and was almost killed, "and between two groups that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force." After weaving his way through these Civil War writings, on which he has worked for nearly 15 years. Critic Wilson seems to take a view of the war as bleak as Holmes...
Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 is the man's candidate for governor. Average, decent voters of Massachusetts are fed up with the problem subscription," he said recently. "They lean, decent candidates for office levels...
Continuing this heartening trend of lean prose and effective dialogue, Anne Lindbergh focuses on incest in her short sketch about a brother and sister parting at an air terminal. September is a modest attempt that leaves one hoping for something more ambitious from Miss Lindbergh in the future...
...military roads are being laid through the slopes to ease the problem of supply; bulldozers are shaving away hillsides to straighten out the hairpin turns in old roads. Most of the mountain roads, however, are still little better than mountain-goat paths on which, says one survivor, "you lean to the inside, put your hand out toward space, and don't look...