Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home runs (33), lean Rightfielder Hank Aaron is still leading the league with his bat (.367), and on the pitching staff 38-year-old Lefty Warren Spahn (15-11) and 32-year-old Righty Lew Burdette (16-12) have lost none of their guile...
...Classical and the Gothic, artists strove for an agreed-upon ideal, and innovations were few (or, if many, did not survive). But modern art relentlessly stresses the new. The result is mostly confusion, but also a degree of fermentation. Last week in Manhattan's Greenwich Village a lean, wispy-bearded man with the cheerful energy of a grasshopper was preparing something brand new in sculpture. His suitably improbable name: Len Lye. His sculptures he calls "Tangibles," but they are not meant to be touched. They vibrate...
...Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable. Where Eva moves to her promised land with oversure aim, Cassidy never quite makes it. He stops here to help unearth a war-rare Finnegans Wake from the rubble, or just to lean against tired oars in a suburban outing pond. He also pauses to ponder a still-unclear conscience. But, getting nowhere in particular, he still manages to leave Eva behind by a few paces of poetic insight...
When the tried and true blue-water racers of the New York Yacht Club set out fortnight ago for their annual series of races off the New England coast, a lean, shy sailor out of Marblehead, Mass, tagged along with his new sloop to see what she could do. Last week the fleet was marveling at the record of the 40-ft., plump-breasted Robin and young (32) Designer-Owner Frederick Emart Hood: four wins in seven races and an overall first-season record of eight wins in twelve races...
...neck. After a short flight-over forbidding jungles, the pilot banked his plane, swooped down toward a clearing and made a smooth touchdown on another makeshift airfield. There to greet him were the local priest, a handful of native sisters, and hordes of near-naked natives. The pilot: lean, sandy-haired Bishop Leo Arkfeld, 47, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Wewak Vicariate, a 20,100-sq.-mi. area (more than twice the size of New Jersey) in Australia's hot, humid New Guinea territory...