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Word: leanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Floyd Patterson was there in Ali's body, as Muthammad played peekaboo with Holmes in the early going. Kenny Norton was there when Ali would hold his arms horizontally across his face and lean back to avoid Holmes's blows. Even Joe Frazier entered Ali when, for a very strange few minutes, Muhammad bent at the waist and bobbed and weaved as if he were a left-hook-throwing slugger...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Where Was Ali? | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...cent decrease in population would reduce the number of jobs even more since allocations are based on total population and unemployment. "We are already in a lean year, so any further cutbacks will just hurt more," Reidy added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Low Census Count May Reduce Aid | 9/30/1980 | See Source »

There were no losers at Blodgett Pool last night. Sure, the final score on the board--29-5--seemed to lean a bit ponderously towards the UCLA side of the pool, but no one at the Harvard end shed any tears, either...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: UCLA Gives Hosts 29-5 Polo Lesson | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

...brokers had hitherto respected Mesa as a well-run company, but felt that it had too many large tracts of older wells. Aggressive investors usually look for small firms with assets concentrated in new drilling fields. By unloading its aging wells, Mesa transformed its image to that of a lean and hungry company oriented toward exploration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Texas-Size Tax Dodges | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...beginning of the end was World War I, and one of the casualties was the servant mentality; the upper class no longer had a lower one to lean on. The country house survived a little longer, and even had a renaissance during the '20s and '30s, when the Evelyn Waugh crowd made elfin sport amid the topiaries. World War II and all that followed it, most notably extortionate taxes and the declining British economy, finally put these gay places to rest. A book like this, which has pedestrian prose but enchanting pictures, is perhaps the best memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life: R.I.P. | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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