Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joining LaRusso at forward will be rugged Gary Vandeweghe, a solid all-around performer. At center will be Dave Farnsworth, who matches the varsity's McClellan in size, and in the back-court will be two excellent veterans, stocky Walt Sosnowski and lean Chuck Kaufman, both averaging in double figures and playing first-rate defense...
...other departments of Major National Security, the budgetmakers raise atomic energy funds a lean 4% to $2.8 billion, trim strategic stockpiling funds, slice foreign military aid a surprising 20% to $1.8 billion...
...lunch, but in their restaurants and homes Belgians fell silent as the youthful voice, how and then shaking slightly with emotion, came over the radio. Later, 4,200 miles away in Léopoldville, blacks and whites heard the same words blaring over the loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only a week before, nationalists had been...
OUTNUMBERED nearly 2 to 1 in the 86th Congress, the Republican minority in the House of Representatives-as well as the embattled Eisenhower Administration -will lean heavily upon the political talents of the new G.O.P. floor leader, hard-hitting Charlie Halleck, 58, of Rensselaer, Ind. (pop. 5,000). Hoosier state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer...
...Conductor Barbirolli, born in London of an Italian father and French mother, drew the overpowering assignment of succeeding Arturo Toscanini at the New York Philharmonic. Despite previous conducting posts in London, Leeds and Glasgow, it was too much, too soon. For seven lean years, Barbirolli tried to impose his rather romantic conducting style on the Philharmonic, while the strong-willed orchestra seemed determined to play as it pleased. Mounting criticism finally forced Barbirolli to leave...