Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came with some degenerates who went straight to the tables. They haven't even been up to our rooms." ("Degenerate" is an acknowledged category of gambler in Las Vegas, one step ahead of "compulsive" on the road to ruin.) In perfect synchronization, the two women lean over with brushes in both hands, and each beats her hair into a froth. Upright again, both declare, "Ugh! Straw!" The little bimbo says, "I'd never put color on my hair. People would think I was phony...
Women athletes are just beginning to discover what their bodies, properly trained, can do. Says Swimmer Nancy Hogshead, 22, winner of three gold medals: "Once the Marilyn Monroe look was really in. Now it's the lean, muscular, runner look. I'm not going to stop being a world-class athlete because swimming gives me dry skin or something." Retired Shot-Putter Maren Seidler, who holds the U.S. women's record, says, "I can remember being the only girl in any weight room...
...lean way back in the chair. Rest your head and stretch out. Relax. Now get to work...
...lean, silver-haired Mississippian, Diffrient, 55, has always disdained the merely stylish, devoting most of his professional life to accommodating what he calls the "human factor" in the tools and furnishings of our high-tech civilization. He started as a painter, but switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during...
Murphy said that while he was pleasantly surprised by this year's surplus and was projecting another small one for next year, the school would continue to "run a lean ship for the next few years," avoiding the addition of any major programs...