Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Room. They sound more like postgraduate seminars in political science, economics and psychology than security briefings. The emphasis is on intellectual exchange. Brzezinski accepts criticism from his staff so long as it is not too blunt. He holds, but does not hog the floor. His 31-member staff is lean, and in some areas, such as the Middle East, the Far East and strategic policy, it is very good...
...power, lean-muscled, quick-wristed power, that stirs excitement when Jim Rice comes to the plate. In Fenway Park, where the fans have a connoisseur's appreciation of the slugger's art, the cheers begin when he strides to the on-deck circle. Rice has sparked Boston to its best start since 1946, when Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio returned from World War II to win the first Red Sox pennant in almost three decades. Says one Sox fan: "They can be down six runs in the ninth inning, but if Rice still has a chance to bat, nobody leaves...
...attitudes are generally a matter of personality, not of prevalent elitism, Gibson says, adding that she can usually type a student from his or her physical manner. "Some charge in, come right behind my desk--which I hate--or stand back in and peer down at me. Others timidly lean in the doorway and if I don't happen to be looking up, they just sort of hang there until I notice them...
...Governor makes enemies, and three Democrats have a shot at upsetting Finch: his predecessor, former Governor Bill Waller, 51, a folksy Jackson lawyer who has a broad black following after twice prosecuting the accused murderer of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers; Columbia Attorney Maurice Dantin, 48, a lean marathon runner who seems to have inherited the help of some key Eastland supporters; and Charles Sullivan, 53, a former Lieutenant Governor from Clarksdale with strength in the northern part of the state. Running as an independent with unknown impact is Charles Evers, brother of the slain Medgar and mayor of Fayette...
There are other examples of appearances fooling us. The best is Madame Lola, a lean black prostitute who ends up supporting Madame Rosa and Momo when her fellow prostitutes no longer send their children to the old woman. She is genuinely kind and genuinely cares, which belies her appearance as a prostitute. But that isn't all. In Momo's first taping he reveals that Madame Lola is really a former male fighter who has had hormone injections and now "peddles her ass." It is a revelation that comes as a complete surprise which means, even more, that whether...