Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scratch for Pomp. Nehru and Vice President Radhakrishnan hope to hack away the middle-aged fat that, is debilitating the once lean and lithe party of Gandhi. Congress has grown complacent with victory, corrupt, nepotistic, aloof from the masses and rent with internal squabbles. Although Nehru bitterly condemns voting by caste, by linguistic factions or religious groups, many of his nominal followers openly espouse such causes in their campaigns...
...McDougald figured he was going to have to swing on the next one. In the split second that it takes a ball to travel 60 ft. 6 in. from the pitcher's mound to the plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
...fervent faith of more than 27 million Poles. Wielding that faith as a moral weapon, Wyszynski has forced from Wladyslaw Gomulka's government a degree of religious freedom and recognition for his church undreamed of anywhere else in the Communist world. Today the cardinal and the commissar lean on each other in a breathtakingly precarious balancing act. protecting each other against extremists in both the Catholic and the Communist camp, personally opposed in everything except Polish patriotism and a talent for tough-minded compromise. It is a strange coexistence between the cross and the hammer-and-sickle. But Masses...
With cocky confidence, Fullmer chose again the same tactics that won him the title. Bulling in from outside, he lunged for Robinson's lean, graceful body, whistling home numbing roundhouse rights and ripping uppercuts. Robinson planted his feet and mostly waited; when he did fight back he was as right-hand crazy as a preliminary boy. Held high, Sugar's left was only an ineffective shield. Piling up points, Fullmer showed his contempt for the fading skill of Robinson, once the greatest craftsman of his generation, by landing with awkward, sprawling right-hand leads. Robinson backed...
...lean, greying native of Walla Walla, Wash, with a quizzical look, owlish spectacles and a black mustache. Morgan made his most memorable 1956 newscasts on a story of painful intimacy to him, the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Aboard and reported killed in the crash with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent...