Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slogans, pressures and penalties. He went to a job picked for him by the government. At day's end he shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party planners raced...
After many lean years, medicine in Vienna is reviving, and the city is again becoming a good place for foreign doctors to study...
Over the last 20 years, some 40 of Zurbaran's paintings have come to light. His best are flat, angular studies of lean-jawed monks; even his paintings of women seem chopped out with a chisel. Depth and perspective interested him little. One of his finest, St. Serapion, is in the Wadsworth Atheneum at Hartford, Conn...
...relaxed, white-thatched scholar in rimless spectacles, he has managed to be one of the most effective of university presidents with a minimum of flash. "A college president," he says, "has two choices. One is to lean toward being a public figure. I decided to throw my weight toward Princeton." Dodds has built slowly and well on foundations that he never wanted to alter. Unlike Mover Conant or Shaker Hutchins, he can sum up his career so far with a refreshingly unorthodox boast: that in its basic philosophy, Princeton "has not changed in the least in the last 20 years...
Carl ("Bobo") Olson is a lean (5 ft. 10½ in.) and hungry-looking; middleweight (160 Ibs.), who learned to defend himself in the tough Kaliki section of Honolulu, where street-fighting is a normal pastime. Paddy Young is a stocky (5 ft. 8 in.) middleweight, who learned his punching as a stevedore on Manhattan's rough & tumble waterfront...