Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN SHE WAS 18 back in 1965, a dropout from the University of Arizona, Linda Ronstadt set out on the road for California, looking for the footlights and the glory of the rock world. But the beginning was a lean time; during those free-wheeling days of the mid-sixties with Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards as the group Stone Poneys, she was not exactly one of Capitol Records' biggest recording artists...
...resolutely puts on a stoop and shuffle as he portrays an aged Supreme Court Justice in his 21st play, First Monday in October, which opens on Broadway this week. Yet the man's youthfulness is what lingers in the mind. In his comic turns, Fonda remains as lean and lithe as when he came to national attention in The Farmer Takes a Wife. Watching the star, audiences find it difficult to remember that Jane Fonda is 40, that Peter Fonda turned 38 this year. Some four decades after his film debut, Henry Fonda still cannot help suggesting younger...
Jerry Brown, Governor of California, likening the art of governing to paddling a canoe: "You lean a little to the left and then a little to the right in order to always move straight ahead...
Four years ago he surprised the experts by leading the U.S. Equestrian Team to a world championship at Burghley, England, and winning for himself a gold medal. Now Bruce Davidson, 28, cool, aristocratic, and every lean inch a horseman, prepared under a merciless Kentucky sun to defend his title against the best riders in his dangerous and specialized sport...
...standards would be voluntary, in the sense that no one would be fined or jailed for flouting them. But Administration inflation hawks are discussing other ways to dun the disobedient. The most obvious is to withhold federal contracts from companies that violate the standards. Some other ideas: lean on the Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any rate increases that truck lines might seek in order to pay for a high settlement with the Teamsters; let in more lower-cost imported steel if American mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon...