Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '30s there was a strike of stevedores in Everett, Mass. The police broke up the peaceful picket line with tear gas. Those were the lean years for unions in America, and these members of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), protesting against conditions in the maritime industry, were banned from further picketing. But the police had arrived on a windy day and there was a school playground to the side of the dock. That day it wasn't only workers who were taken to hospitals; the children also choked and wept as the stinging cloud hit them...
Americans list other complaints?spiraling property taxes and housing costs, government interference in their lives and businesses, deteriorating schools, inflated health-care costs, filthy air and rivers. Farmers in the Midwest fear that the year will give them fat harvests and lean profits...
...stories in Charleston are flatter in tone and more realistic. Yet Donoso's themes of youthful magic and distorted middle-aged passions are still evident. Children have the power to enchant and destroy; dogs and cats provide unusual escapes for the trapped and the lonely. Donoso balances lean, graceful prose with a sense of the psychological arabesque. It is a fine combination for modern ghost stories in which the reader may recognize phan toms of himself. R.Z. Sheppard
...Datsun's second and Honda's third. Volkswagen, once the undisputed leader in auto imports, now ranks fourth-even though sales were up 80% in May over a year earlier. Part of the reason for the imports' jolting success is that they are generally small compacts, lean on fuel and relatively comfortable to drive. One senior Detroit auto executive wondered last week "how the foreigners can produce that much value for the money." Some industry analysts think that foreign-car sales, growing for months, were given a lift by President Carter's energy message in late...
Overall, however, the coaches and admissions officers tend to lean on each other for information and advice. Each year the coaches submit to the committee a list of students they would like to have in their programs, and the committee in turn asks the athletic department for an evaluation of the applicant's athletic capabilities. Calvin N. Mosley, associate director of admissions, says the process is similar to the committee's practice of asking member of special departments to rate the ability of an applicant who is an artist or musician. "'You measure excellence in a variety of ways...