Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, the memory of the 1930's is very much with us. Perhaps because of the abuse heaped on radicals during the McCarthy period, and because of the culturally lean full years which followed the "full leans years" of the 30's, their writers and music appeal to us now. Never before have the recollections of writers like Edmund Wilson, James Agee, and Alfred Kazin been more in vogue. Never before has the music of Woodie Guthrie, the Weavers, and untold "lost" folk blues singers been more popular. We are hungry for news of that era. When Writers...
...astronauts are legitimate space-age heroes, dedicated men who risk their lives on lean military salaries modestly enhanced by the flight pay that is partially earned in orbit: some $80 for every quick trip around the earth. But there are fringe benefits too: the seven original spacemen got about $70,000 each for selling personal accounts of their experiences to LIFE. Last week, their ranks swollen by nine new volunteers, the astronauts did just about as well with the second chapter of their story. For a total of $1,040,000, they sold the publishing rights to LIFE...
...present maximum standard deduction of 10% of taxable income up to $1,000), some 1,500,000 low-income Americans will be dropped from the federal tax rolls. A number of other, smaller groups also got breaks. Authors, prizefighters, and others who have one fat income year after several lean ones will be allowed to average out their earnings over a five-year period so as to achieve a far lower tax rate. Art lovers who buy paintings, hang them in their homes, but claim a deduction by promising to donate them to museums, will be allowed to continue doing...
...Kaiser's rule, Schuman was a German for the first 33 years of his life. When the Treaty of Versailles returned Lorraine to France after World War I, he became French (although he never lost his German accent) and was elected a Deputy. Educated in the law, lean and tall with a toothbrush mustache, the ascetic Schuman was a natural for the finance commission, where he served for 17 years. He ate cheap meals, prowled his offices snapping off lights. A lifelong bachelor, Schuman once answered the door of his Paris apartment wearing a maid's apron...
...face, then you swing your hips and start twitching. Sounds like the twist? Wrong, man. That's the blues, a new British dance craze that comes complete with an added fillip. In one step, hands are clasped behind the back, and the dancer bends slightly forward. The brief lean is called the Philip, since it springs from the Duke of Edinburgh's inevitable hands -clasped -to -the - rear, trunk -inclined stance two steps behind the Queen. Says one London blues-Philip adept: "You just stand there and act as if you are slightly sick...