Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program. Today the bureau has study requests from 165 Washington towns; 60 have already organized informal study groups of their own. In the 22 communities where rejuvenation is accomplished or underway, 700 new jobs have been created, a total of $10 million worth of improvement projects financed. Says lean, intense Jack E. Wright, 37, Poston's successor as bureau director: "You can't have community lumbago when...
...Searchers (C. V. Whitney; Warner) is another excursion into the patented Old West of Director John Ford. The place is Texas, three years after the Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...
...than the state's 68 delegates for Stevenson. It also meant that he had knocked Kefauver all the way out of the presidential ring, a vital display of political muscle. In the golden afterglow of the Golden State primary, many an uncertain delegate around the U.S. began to lean more and more toward Stevenson. But the big prize was by no means in his hands. The end of the primaries signaled the start of a whole new battle in the struggle for the Democratic nomination, a struggle of political maneuver that would go on right down to the final...
...nearly a decade Italian Socialists have been living with the bitter aftermath of the day in January 1947 when a lean, jut-jawed young intellectual bearing an honored name rose to address a party congress in the Great Hall of Rome University. The speaker was Matteo Matteotti. His father was Socialist Leader Giacomo Matteotti, modern Italy's No. 1 political martyr...
Standing on a Chicago el platform one day in 1928, a lean, mild-mannered New Englander named Nathaniel Leverone idly started feeding coins into the vending machines and got madder by the minute. "I weighed myself on a penny machine and found I weighed 205," recalls Leverone. "Another machine said 98. A chocolate machine gave me nothing, not even my penny back. Out of a peanut machine I got six moldy objects I wouldn't feed to a goat." Businessman Leverone got sore enough to go to work to teach the vending-machine business a lesson in honesty...