Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine times in his eight months in office Premier Robert Schuman, the lean, leaning tower of French politics, had tottered on the brink of failure. Nine times he survived a vote of confidence by margins as small as 33, 23 and 16 Assembly votes...
...earth hard packed by Pinto Man's feet, and in the dirt around the house were grinding stones and pestles his womenfolk had used to prepare his food. Since the postholes were vertical and some five inches in diameter, the house could not have been a lean-to like those built by some primitive Indians. It must have been made of substantial materials, with walls and a roof...
...last week the San Luis Obispo road -the valley's only outlet-was jammed with trucks carrying oil to the coast, and pipe and rigs back into Cuyama. Each day brought in new hopefuls who pitched tents, built rickety lean-tos, rigged up their equipment with floodlights for around-the-clock drilling. To carry away the oil, Richfield was laying a 35-mile, 6-inch pipeline to connect with a bigger one that ran to Los Angeles County. Richfield has given the contractor ten days to complete the line...
...Dearest Mommie." But she was recklessly in love again-this time with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...
Stomach Ulcers. Victims are aggressive, try to dominate other people, mold their environment to suit themselves. They are self-conscious and have strong likes and dislikes. Their eyes are sullen, their mouths firm; they have a "lean and hungry" look...