Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely that after the experiment with a young coach the Administration may turn toward an older man. This is especially true in the present situation because it is commonly felt that authorities want a man who knows what he is getting into and isn't afraid of a few lean years...
Started primarily as a religious organization, PBH during its 50-year life has tended to lean more and more in the direction of social service and charity work, until now its main function is the maintaining of 48 settlement houses in Cambridge and Greater Boston...
...water and gas roared up, shooting pipe and rocks high in the air. Then came a greasy and terrifying geyser of oil - a 75,000-barrel-a-day flow, more than many a whole field produces. Within weeks, the town of Beaumont was a madhouse of tents, saloons, lean-tos and one-room shacks; land on the dome was selling for as much as $1,000,000 an acre, and derricks were rising, leg to leg, in a confused and feverish race for riches...
...Liberals captured only twelve seats, seven of them in Wales. But they got 9% of the popular vote, and could have swung the balance in many constituencies. Most Liberal candidates lean more to the Tories than to the Laborites. If Churchill's attempt to enlist the Liberal vote had succeeded, a combined Tory-Liberal front would have been a formidable combination...
Behind all the hearts & flowers is Joyce C. Hall, 58, a lean and solemn man who started out, at 18, to become a greeting-card shark by selling postcard greetings in Kansas City. Rollie B. Hall, a brother, joined him there, but they soon realized that postcard greetings were losing favor. Said Joyce Hall: "We found we were developing a dying business." They switched to cards enclosed in envelopes, were soon so successful that they took in another brother, William F. Hall...