Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. He urged Israel to sign the interim agreement with Egypt "even if signing it is as risky as rejecting it." He has strongly opposed the proposed sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. In place of what he calls "complex, exotic, often unreliable new hardware," he would prefer a "lean, tough, defensive force...
...Lownes is so dedicated to cutting expenses that he is known within the company as "Attila" (or, on more recent occasions, "Jaws"). "We are going to be thin and lean," he vows, sitting in a Chicago office that has neither furnishings nor secretary. Since taking up his duties in Chicago last May, Lownes claims, he has cut $2.8 million out of the home office's $8 million budget for operating the clubs and hotels. Among his moves: he has decided to discontinue VIP, a magazine for key holders, at an estimated saving of $800,000 a year...
...better today? I was trying not to lean forward so much. Could you see that?" Nancy was sitting dangling her legs from the stone railing of the patio, her open, friendly face looking a little worried. "Yeah, I think I could." Daig was being encouraging, but not enthusiastic...
Empty Bluff. In Cairo's view, the Israelis are stalling in order to keep negotiations churning on through 1976; in an election year, Washington is unlikely to lean heavily on Jerusalem to make any settlement that would displease American Jewish voters...
...Piano, Violin and Cello (1954). This piece uses a dissonant, non-tonal vocabulary, articulated in driving rhythms and evocative melodic fragments. The result is an almost Romantic sense of clearly defined broad gestures. Kirchner, along with violinist Donald Weilerstein and cellist Laurence Lesser, responded to these qualities in a lean, rhythmically taut performance that conveyed a sense of urgent, breathless energy...