Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memories of the record 1955 model year (7,136,000 cars) raised a troubling question: Would too big a year be followed by a weak sales year? Detroit doesn't think so. Unlike 1955, there has been little overselling or price slashing this year, and inventories are lean...
...small, square office at the BBC's music headquarters in London, Clock tirelessly studies scores and magnetic tapes as he tries to keep track of the 12,000 compositions played annually on the BBC's 3,000 serious music programs. Clock's own tastes lean to the modern, but a typical Clock program is a mixture of classic and modern. ("If you segregate old and new," he says, "music is just a museum.") The "Proms would not be Proms," Clock is convinced, unless they included most of the symphonies of Beethoven, the four Brahms symphonies, the last...
...from the head of the stairs, where he had crouched like a small boy peeking at a grownups' ball, to be smothered in the embrace of celebrities and clients like Dancer Jeanmaire, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, Cosmetologist Helena Rubinstein. His designs, basically for the young and slim, are lean and tubular, shaped by precision seams, not spectacular but consistently the loveliest...
...payroll this year, it has turned last year's first-half $16 million deficit into a $12 million profit, even though sales and earnings are well below 1959 and 1960. As usual, smoothly managed General Motors is doing fine. For the past six years, in fat times and lean, it has consistently brought home returns of 6.7% to 7.8% on sales−and in this year's first half, the figure jumped...
...Voyage: "I am in most possible kinds of pain . . . and the trouble revolves chiefly round the simple-sounding problem of how to become what I wish I could when I can't. That, however, is fierce and complicated enough to keep me balancing over suicide as you might lean out over the edge of a high building but with no special or constant desire not to fall . . . without guidance, balance, coordination, my ideas and impressions and desires, which are much larger than I can begin to get to paper, are loose in my brains like wild beasts of assorted...