Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew that this was the one to win. All through three quarters the hopped-up Irish line hammered at Coach Bud Wilkinson's well-drilled Sooners. For all their consummate fakery, none of Oklahoma's quarterbacks could shake loose on their famed run-pass option play. The lean, long-muscled Oklahomans who had never played on a losing team were hard put to hold the game to a scoreless tie. And in the fourth quarter, they could no longer do that. Notre Dame Fullback Nick Pietrosante shared with Halfback Pat Doyle the joy of bulling for steady yardage...
...Yves Saint-Laurent, 21, designer for Paris' fashion-pacing House of Dior, was named chief designer, thereby becoming successor to the late Christian Dior. Lean, shy and bespectacled, Algerian-born Saint-Laurent got his start at only 17 when Dior plucked him from a fashion-designer contest he was judging, made the boy his protege. Saint-Laurent took charge of Dior's lower-priced clothes for Dior's spring collection this year, is unofficially credited with designing nearly half of this fall...
Corporate Salvation. The pietistic, motto-wielding Christianity of his day was inadequate to the inhumanity he saw around him in a world of slums, child labor and union-busting. It is all very well, he wrote, for a man "to lean back on the Eternal and to draw from the silent reservoirs. But what we get there is for use. Personal sanctification must serve the Kingdom...
...David O. Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy...
...this cheery note that Perri is introduced to the hard facts a squirrel is up against in the world of Walt Disney. She is mauled by a goshawk, ripped up by a weasel, and almost torn to pieces by a marten-a lean and eager individual with a bright red tongue that lolls out in an unpleasant way. A forest fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics...