Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Stirling Moss, 28, lean, daring auto-racing ace, first Englishman to win Italy's Mille Miglia; and Katherine Molson, 22, millionheiress daughter of Montreal Brewer F. S. Molson; in London...
Skipper Ludwig, a long, lean, lone-wolf operator who speaks softly and seldom, sailed to his riches through heavy seas. Born in South Haven, Mich., he started as a marine engine mechanic in his teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers...
...Hudson. . .), "Ain't It The Truth," and "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today." She can ride one word onto several notes as perfectly as she can move her body provocatively. Unfortunately, she has trouble weaving in and out of a Jamaica accent, often waiting to lean into Caribbean pronunciation and rhythm until just before a song begins...
...York last week came a distinguished Indian visitor seeking money. But unlike some visitors, this one wanted not a handout from the U.S. taxpayer but a private loan. Lean, handsome Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 53, chairman of Tata Enterprises, was looking for an additional $17.5 million of private financing for a 700,000-ton expansion of the Tata Iron & Steel Co. works at Jamshedpur, India. Topping a 500,000-ton addition under way, the expansion will raise steel output from 800,000 to 2,000,000 tons by late 1958, make the plant by far the largest integrated steel mill...
William Golding, English novelist, writes like a French existentialist who has wandered into the Manhattan offices of True magazine. The French practitioners of the art of "the extreme situation" lean to plagues (Albert Camus) or politics and perversion (Jean-Paul Sartre). A Cornishman and sometime naval officer. Author Golding of course sends his existential hero to sea. Aboard a British destroyer in mid-Atlantic, Christopher Martin had just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged...