Word: leanest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will start at 2% and move up gradually to 3% by 1964. A sinking fund will be started to buy up the bonds in the free market or pay them off by lots at par-$1,000 plus $100 settlement on back interest. It was a lean agreement-the leanest yet in the Council's history-but the council told bondholders it was the best they could expect from sorely strained Bolivia...
...bottles and partridges from the tables, for the painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet, 27, France's most popular painter (TIME, March 21), whose portraits depict the leanest and hungriest figures since Picasso's Frugal Repast...
...current Broadway season, with 30 openings so far, is one of the leanest on record. It will not get much fatter in the months ahead, and most of its dramatic weight will be supplied by revivals. Some of them...
...coach finally stepped out, grinning broadly, and flipped the game ball to band director Malcolm H. Holmes '23. The Band, he noted, had stuck with the team through the leanest times. The Band and crowd responded with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...turnabout was caused by an impending worldwide cotton shortage-and the leanest U.S. cotton crop in four years. Bugs, bad weather and the cut in acreage allotments under the support program had slashed the U.S. crop this year to an estimated 9,869,000 bales from 16,128,000 bales in 1949. Brannan hoped that production could be stepped up again to 16 million bales in 1951. But wiping out controls removed only one obstacle; there were plenty more...