Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among all the long, lean runners on the Harvard track team, one exceptionally large athlete stands out. When he takes his place at the start of each 500-yard race, one can't help but think that Coach McCurdy certain of victory, must be letting a shotputter enter the sprint. But as soon as the gun goes off, it becomes quite apparent this is no shotputter. With a smooth and effortless stride, he paces himself perfectly hanging back until the gunlap, and, quite often, blowing by the competitors to take first place...
...doubt. Testifying before the Senate Government Affairs Committee last week, Budget Director David Stockman attempted to wave away the disruptive threat of projected Administration deficits by arguing that they will constitute a smaller proportion of a larger economy than before. The claim is a very weak reed to lean on. During Jimmy Carter's peak deficit year of 1980, the red ink reached $59.5 billion, or 2.3% of the nation's $2.6 trillion gross national product. By contrast, the CBO's projected Reagan deficit of $109 billion for fiscal 1982 will be at least...
Here is George Orwell, resembling "Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ... A kind of dry egotism has burnt him out." Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising ?25 for his capture: "It's more than they would offer...
Insofar as these ideals are universally human, the obligation is real, if less manageable than the cube analogy would suggest. Unfortunately, the Administration's puzzle solvers lean towards the engineer's approach to foreign policy take the cube apart, cut the knot with Trident and Lance missiles and try to join the frayed ends...
...model and self-described stately homo of England detailed his early life and hard times. The book was surprisingly comic, acidulous and touching, and the TV-film version won awards for Actor John Hurt. It was precisely as the old poseur had figured: "Even if you only lean limply against a wall and you happen to live a very long time, gradually it will begin to give...