Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes that he can serve his principles by running an efficient bureau. Until he had reached middle age, even after he became an eminent C.P.A. in Richmond, Va., Andrews wanted to be a surgeon. Now that he is taking the fat (and quite a chunk of the lean) out of 60 million taxpayers' incomes, he feels that he has attained his goal in a different way. Says he: "This is deep surgery...
...result of this was TIME'S two-column story (May 4, 1953) on Nasser, which described him as "a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold Cabinet rank. Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser is becoming the real power in Egypt's military junta−more important even than Naguib, the reluctant dictator...
...tidy office in Appleton, Wis. one autumn day, a lean, brown-haired man sat down at his desk to face an irksome task. Nathan Marsh Pusey was writing his biography for the 25th reunion of his class at Harvard, and it was with much of the agony that H. M. Pulham Esq. went through ("a good deal like something on a tombstone . . . never did like writing . . .") that he dutifully recorded his life. He noted that he had three chil dren, was president of Appleton's Lawrence College (enrollment: 800), that "liberal education is my chief concern...
...children to school. It is 32% Christian. It has more doctors, engineers and teachers per capita than any other state in India. But Travancore also has the highest "educated unemployment" rate in India, and wages are low. Thousands of primary-school teachers get only $6 a month; they lean towards Communism like many other frustrated intellectuals, and indoctrinate their pupils-and through them, the parents...
Ashenfelter, a lean, long-legged (5 ft. 10 in., 145 Ibs.) runner, was almost on the button after the first mile: 4:24.5. But then he began to lag. At a mile and a quarter, as the crowd was already clapping him along with urging applause, Ashenfelter was more than 2 sec. behind. At trackside, Wilt gave him the thumbs-down signal. For the final lap, Ashenfelter never even bothered to look at Wilt. He just put his head down and ran as hard as he could...