Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkey's protests, called on him in his suite. Among other visitors: his sister and the sister of EOKA Leader Dighenis, who live together in Athens. Watching the scenes of adulation, observers conceded that Archbishop Makarios right now could overturn the Karamanlis government itself, if it crossed him. Lean, tanned and steely sure of himself, the archbishop showed no signs of such a wish, but last week all Greek politicians were uneasily trying to guess just what Makarios' plans were. Sighed one: "No one knows but the Almighty, and there's no one between the Almighty...
Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...
Gulps & Gambles. Exner had his own ideas of what an automobile should look like. "What I wanted," he says, "was a lean, taut look rather than a static look-a look of thrust. People are used to the dart or wedge-shaped theme. They see it on jet planes, racing cars, big racing boats. I thought people would like them, particularly young people, and the young people would sell their parents." Seeing the designs for the first time one chilly day in November 1954, Chrysler's brass gulped, fretted that they might be too strong for the U.S. public...
...scissors is sharper than the snip. Foreign aid seems sure to be slashed unless the President comes to its rescue. But on the domestic front, indiscriminate congressional pork-barreling, logrolling, and horse-trading are almost certain to add some unnecessary fat, partly making up for whatever fat-and lean-is trimmed...
...Lean, blue-eyed Captain Moureau, 37, was district government officer in Tar-jicht, Morocco, a district the size of Massachusetts but with a meager population of tribesmen, camels and sheep. He ruled his desert strip so successfully and was liked by its people so well that he stayed on after the French withdrew from Morocco. Then the Moroccan "Army of Liberation" came to pillage Tarjicht, and nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when...