Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduce is to cut down the amount of fuel (expressed as the number of calories) stoked into the body. And to do this they nearly always recommend cutting down most drastically on fats, sugars and starches, allowing an almost unlimited intake of low-fat protein foods such as lean meats, cottage cheese. The current ruckus was started by what seemed like a heretical doctrine coming from, of all places, one of the nation's most tradition-encrusted seats of medical orthodoxy, Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
...charging large executive salaries and bonuses to cost allowances on Government contracts, for hiring recently retired military generals "fresh from the opposite side of the desk" and giving them nebulous "advisory" positions. Said the report: "Companies whose business is so closely interwoven with the Military Es tablishment ought to lean over backward so that no suggestion of favoritism, influ ence, or 'old school tie' could be read into their conduct...
Will of the People. At the end of the debate, Lord Salisbury, the Tory leader, unwound his lean length to sum up for the government. Emphasizing the point that hanging is a matter of individual conscience, Salisbury, like Canterbury, declared himself against abolition, but also against the status quo. He was not worried that in defying the House of Commons, the lords might be fashioning a legislative noose around their own necks should another Labor government come to power. Salisbury has given much thought to the limits that the lords must set on themselves. When Labor came to power...
...stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back...
...Turner] Catledge . . . expressed succinctly and convincingly the ingredients of the Times's loss of confidence in Mr. Shafer when he said: 'Not only must we be sure that the person who handles our [Communist] news is not proCommunist. We must be equally sure that he will not lean backward to prove that he is not a Communist or no longer a Communist.' Mr. Shafer could give the Times no such assurance, his record on the job notwithstanding...