Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...socialism looks like. If you don't obey, we'll crush you" (TIME, Oct. 29). Now, as Gomulka stepped out, the trace of a smile on his thin lips, Khrushchev and Premier Bulganin, plump as penguins in their astrakhan greatcoats and caps, waddled forward to pump the lean Gomulka's hand...
...Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. The fire had been lighted by Pollsters George Gallup, Elmo Roper, et al., who had miscalled the 1948 election. The public remembered 1948, and so did the pollsters. In 1952, though they detected the Ikeward lean with impressive accuracy, they carefully hedged their final figures with large percentages of undecided voters and other forms of insurance...
...lean and attractive, and sporting a yard-long pony tail, she explains something of herself as she entertains her audience. She stems from a long line of show people, went on the road with her Italian-comedienne mother as a dancer at the age of five. Caterina is the youngest of four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler...
...they had wounded that morning. Viv Squires, 45, was no marksman, had not hunted for ten years; he carried a .30-30 Winchester carbine-a deer rifle and hardly better than a peashooter, he kept thinking, against the 8-ft., 700-lb. grizzly. But 29-year-old Ken Scott, lean, muscular and a good shot, felt confident. He carried a more powerful .30-06 rifle, and he wanted the grizzly...
Through the next 13 years, history moved on through hypernormalcy, depression and isolation while Hitler rose, taunting, to turn Europe into a horror of fear. Eisenhower, born one year after Hitler, remained a major through the Army's lean, hungry years. Much of this time Ike was a staff officer in the War Department learning the beginning of statecraft-interservice and interclique. For four years (1935-39) he served in the Philippines as senior aide to Douglas MacArthur, and there he learned something of Filipino politics and a lot about how to control his frustration when MacArthur (whom...