Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MEAT OF THE YEAR Whether they thought of it as a rodent or more lovingly as a cuddly bunny, Americans have generally had little taste for rabbit meat. No longer. Lean and less fattening than chicken, rabbit lends itself to a wide variety of preparations, hence its now standard appearance in many supermarket freezer cases and on menus of only moderately fashionable restaurants. Now if only there were a way to stuff the ears...
...Lean and slightly bent from years of work with hammer and saw, pick and shovel, Graton has sinewy, brown forearms and a powerful grip belying his 77 years...
Above all Boesky made research about takeovers his obsession. From his lavishly appointed Midtown Manhattan offices the lean marauder directed batteries of lawyers and financial detectives to sniff out possible outcomes and hurdles in takeover deals. Usually standing rather than sitting at his desk, he worked 18-hour days behind a 300-line telephone bank. He cultivated the image of a man who lived and breathed only for stock deals, sleeping little, hardly seeming to eat, and apparently subsisting largely on gallons of black coffee...
...Post-War Lean YearsYear Harvard record Yale record TheGame Result1958 3-5 2-6 Harvard, 28-01951 3-5 2-5-1 Tie, 21-211949 1-7 3-4 Yale...
...Lean, voluble Wyche Fowler of Georgia has been one of the few whites to represent a predominantly black district in Congress. Elected in 1977 to fill the Atlanta House seat that Andrew Young vacated to join the Carter Administration, Fowler went on to compile the most liberal voting record in Georgia's congressional delegation. Last week, when Fowler, 46, defeated Republican Incumbent Mack Mattingly, 51% to 49%, to win a seat in the Senate, he proved that even on a statewide level, Southern white liberals are not a vanishing species, after...