Word: leaned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard men's hockey team, it came yesterday after a rather Lean Monday. No celebrating on this Mardi Gras--just a day off from practice for the team to collect its wits and get ready for a weekend trip to Dartmouth and Vermont...
...death last November of longtime concertmaster Daniel Majeske occasioned editorial eulogies the likes of which would be rare elsewhere. Under executive director Thomas W. Morris, the orchestra sits atop an impressive $73 million endowment, operates in the black and is retiring a $6.2 million accumulated deficit incurred during some lean years in the 1980s...
...Lean means long-lived. A 27-year study of 19,297 Harvard graduates revealed that men who weighed 20% less than average for their height and age had the lowest rate of death among the weight classifications surveyed. By contrast, for those men 20% heavier than average, the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was 2.5 times that of men closer to their desirable weight...
...cats and a lean tiger--it's very clear Murphy is not "Harvard." Sure, the former Cincinnati coach grew up around here, but settling in at Dillon Field House is just a good job to him and not a lifetime ambition fulfilled...
...breath is a useful condition to impose on Pacino. Really good movie actors force you to lean in a little in order to catch their meaning. Pacino, + instead, leans on you, and though his boldness is sometimes impressive, in its calculated way there is also something overweening about it. There's almost no vulnerability about him, and that quality was what kept Cagney in a viewer's good graces. It is why Cagney's hoodlums seemed touched by tragedy, while Carlito seems touched only by technique. There is an irony here: an actor's bruising desire to transcend type...