Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rush, a lean, easy-moving, mustached fellow of 46, got his start as a folkie in Cambridge, Mass., when he was a sophomore at Harvard. Joan Baez was beginning to make a name in Cambridge then, and both of them played at a folk hangout called Club...
...ATOUGH, lean budget" is what Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has called the Education Department's higher education funding requests for Fiscal Year (FY) 1988. Most university representatives agree with that characterization, but with little else in the proposed budget...
...boost to affirmative action, even without evidence of past discrimination. -- Two Marine guards are accused of letting Soviet agents roam through the U. S. embassy in Moscow. -- Poindexter is likely to testify that he told Reagan in general terms about the contra fund diversion. -- Carmel- by- the- Sea is lean and clean under Mayor Clint Eastwood...
...lean, pock-marked man got to talking about the food in jail. It isn't bad in Concord Penitentiary; they give you half a chicken on Sundays. But the South Shore, now--that was the worst...
...evening never degenerated into a self-conscious, self-congratulatory benefit of the sort Live Aid has taught us to expect. Even the finale, a Live-Aid-style chorus line, maintained the show's dignity. With a better song (the classic pop tune Lean On Me) and little jockeying for favorite microphones, the Jazz For Lifers put on a showcapper that closed an uplifting evening on an uplifting note...