Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cocktail party. Kids dance frantically to music; when it stops, everybody freezes while the camera zooms in on one child, who asks: "What's eight times seven?" The music resumes, then stops, and another child shouts "Fifty-six." In "The Brownstones," another Laugh-In-like skit, children lean out of apartment-house windows singing and joking...
...pushing land reform. The government has been buying underutilized acreage and selling it in small parcels on easy terms to landless peasant families. To promote the program, Hernandez occasionally pays visits to the farm towns, during which they festoon themselves as if for a saint's day. The lean, handsome Governor draws lots to match each young family with its new farm. "It is economic necessity and has great social value as well," Hernandez says. "We must give the people options...
...Eventually I became indifferent. My only thoughts were of toilets, tobacco and the bribes to the male nurses to let me go to the toilet one more time. Then I began to experience a new thought: 'I must remember everything I see here, I told myself, so that lean tell about it afterwards...
...California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. But a series of dinners organized in New York on Jan. 22, Bayh's 48th birthday, netted only $50,000. If Bayh has any hope of surviving the costly primaries, he is going to have to bag a lot more lean cats...
...Communists have surged to unprecedented influence while openly approving such palatable ideas as a mixed economy, a multiparty system and a free press. France's party seems to be following suit, even repudiating the sacred doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat; and Spain's emerging Communists, lean and muscular from the underground, show signs of similar adaptability...