Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scotland's University of Edinburgh. Then he announced that he had been called by God, returned to Fort Worth's Baptist seminary, and in 1959 was ordained. Only a few months later, at Johnson's urging, Moyers finally went to Washington, where the Senator began to lean heavily on him as a speechwriter and all-round political handyman...
...Connally Amendment. Back in 1945, the committee of jurists that drafted the statutes of the new World Court declared: "It is confidently expected that the jurisdiction of this tribunal will be extended as time goes on." As the expectation is gradually realized, the world may learn to lean with confidence on the rule...
Married. Peter Cook, 25, lean and hungry-looking member of the merciless quartet of English satirists who wrote and became the stars of Broadway's long-running Beyond the Fringe; and Wendy Snowden, 23, his Cambridge sweetheart; in Manhattan...
...precocious student in a Bronx parochial school, submitting smug little essays to the Catholic press-most notably the Tiny Messenger and Catholic Woman. His subjects run to problems like dirty movies and where the angels go in the wintertime; his most masterly creation is Father Danny, "a lean, clear-eyed man, with a spring in his step and a great fund of natural humility." Bert is so good at this kind of pap, in fact, that he decides to make a career of it; soon his essays, his Father Danny stories and occasional poems make the name Flax a byword...
...spread almost equally among heavy electrical equipment, electronics, consumer goods and defense orders (G.E. is the fifth biggest defense contractor). But he decentralized operations and management, making each of 112 department managers a minor president with responsibility for his own budget, pricing and policies. The managers answered to a lean headquarters staff in Manhattan, which was left free for more long-range planning. Cordiner ruthlessly removed managers who stumbled ("It was not the best of times around G.E. at first," recalls one G.E. executive), and decentralization was to blame for much of the company's price-fixing mess...