Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this army of Communists, Lo and his comrades carried out one of the greatest collections of purges in history. They had the Russian experience to lean upon, and they were thus able to avoid the fumbling experiments in mass liquidation made by the early Soviet Chekists. But they worked with a cold-blooded calculation that the Russians, with their basically Christian sense of guilt (evident in this week's Moscow disclaimers) never achieved. The Chinese Communists were so certain of their moral right to kill for the revolution that they attempted at every opportunity to make the people...
...rule of thumb: When in doubt about a racial story, use the press-association copy. For example, in the Autherine Lucy riots, papers in nearby Birmingham were the only out-of-town dailies in the South to send their own staffers to Tuscaloosa to cover the story. Sometimes papers lean on the wire services for racial news even in their own areas. When one major daily recently got tips of forthcoming antisegregation statements by religious leaders, it passed the word along quietly to a wire service instead of going after the story itself...
...crowded main street in downtown Sao Paulo, a lean, intense young man brandishing a length of rubber hose charged a paunchy, white-haired, grandfatherly type. "Nasty old man!" shouted the attacker. "I'll teach you a lesson!" The improvised truncheon whistled past the victim's head, thudded against his shoulder. After that the oldster did the teaching. He whipped off his glasses, grabbed the upswung truncheon with both hands, wrenched it away, then gave the young man several ferocious whacks with it before the cops put an end to the skirmish, a sequel to a talk...
...Patterson promptly turned pro, with D'Amato as his manager. He was sent to Trainer Dan Florio at Stillman's Gym for advanced instruction. Today, at 21, Patterson is known as a "fellow who will leave you for dead. He is a good-looking six-footer with lean hips, long arms and broad shoulders powered by slabs of smooth muscle ... he fights with the violent gracefulness of a large cat hunting its dinner. He is a rarity-a good boxer with a knockout in either fist . . . He is hard to hit, but he has been clobbered, upstairs...
...solo; the three trombones clip off their own high-swinging ensemble passages; and the four trumpets blaze away with such ferocity that the effect becomes strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch changes out of one drum by leaning on it with an elbow), while keeping a rhythm as solid...