Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders of the group Scott Clough) and M.chact (Don Franklin). Clough responsibility seems to be as the movie's romantic interest. This he fulfills by coasting through on its good looks. Franklin, the team's creative choreographic genius, is the most thrilling dancer of the movie. Tall and lean-limbed, he dances with clarity and aplomb. Franklin has a sense of space. Suspending sculptured patterns in the air, he performs rather than merely executing the steps...
...life almost seems an anachronism in a land of expressways and glass skyscrapers. But somehow the farmer managed to get by, helped by his own skill and, for the past half-century, a sympathetic Government that kept a floor under the prices of major crops through fat years and lean...
...intention to foreclose the lean," he said...
Some Catholic women have responded by organizing religious ceremonies of their own. In an apartment 88 floors above Lake Michigan, 13 women in slacks and sweaters sat in a circle last week and sang, "Lean on me, I am your sister." They read the passage from Luke in which a group of women told the Apostles that Christ had risen, and the Apostles did not believe them. Then, although the women do not regard such ceremonies as Eucharists, they passed a loaf of French bread and two pottery mugs of wine. "We share this wine now," one of them prayed...
...origins of the lean years that now plague farmers go back to the fat ones of the 1970s. While that decade brought galloping inflation and uncomfortably high unemployment, it was nonetheless a golden age for agriculture. Farm exports, which amounted to just $7 billion in 1970, increased fivefold during the decade as the world developed a taste for American products. American farmland values zoomed as well. An average acre of Iowa land sold for $417 in 1970 but was worth $2,147 at the start of the '80s. Increasingly prosperous farmers borrowed heavily to buy additional acreage and new equipment...