Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 1949 to September 1950), better discipline than Old Soldier George Marshall (September 1950 to September 1951), and greater loyalty from his top civilian assistants than even affable Robert Lovett (September 1951 to January 1953). Through it all, Engine Charlie remained soft-spoken and relaxed, with an inclination to lean back and look at the ceiling while cigarette ashes dropped on to the lapel of his coat. Within his Pentagon office, he was the picture of a man enjoying...
...Lean, black-browed William Mutterperl of The Bronx came of age just in time to profit by an era in which young physicists are scouted almost as assiduously as young ballplayers. As a student at Manhattan's City College (class of '38), he proved himself a veritable Mickey Mantle among rookie scientists. By 1944 he was in the big leagues. The Government hauled him off to Cleveland's Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, where he streamlined his name to Perl and directed an Air Forces research project in supersonic-aircraft design. By 1950, the year...
Both were towheaded, wide-shouldered, active tots, bronzed by the Florida sun. Their ribs showed. Russ, who fed them protein baby food long after they were babies, said: "I keep them lean because they swim better." Eventually, both learned amazing stunts. Bubba would jump off a 33-ft. tower with his hands and feet tied and swim two lengths of the pool under water. Kathy swam seven miles every morning when training, and dived 20 feet blindfolded...
...young professor lounges casually in the pit of the classroom. Some students thoughtfully lean back in their swivel chairs, waiting to discuss the remarks after the session is ended. Other grimmace, anxiously seeking an opportunity to refute the points that are being made. Some will agree, some will disagree, and yet all may be right, for they know that there are no definite answers in the case system...
Facing them across the table will be Egypt's top team: Premier Mohammed Naguib, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and four men from the Free Officers' Committee. But the British have an idea that the most important man they face is a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold cabinet rank...