Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once there, he gave the speech of his life, less for its text than its context. It was detailed, specific and easy to understand, uncharacteristically lean, a fatherly promise to take care of business. He offered something to everyone: a balanced budget for the bond markets, better child care for working parents, a higher minimum wage for the unions, due attention to global warming for the greens, a plan to save Social Security for the boomers, and a last, potent warning for Saddam Hussein...
...direct outcomes were the founding of the Harvard Independent, the expansion of the Harvard Gazette to its present form from a simple notice sheet, the loss of The Crimson's right to publish the University's official notice column and a succession of lean financial years for The Crimson," he wrote...
...your comrades are off to a beautiful start. Legs pumping, chest heaving, wind racing through your hair, you revel in the energy. This is the best track you've been on yet, and the other runners are the best you've seen. As you lean into the curve, you pass the crumpled bodies of veterans and tell yourself they must not have felt like you do now. If they did, they'd still be running...
...lean into the curve, you notice people with stopwatches ahead. It's much too early to pass the baton, and you didn't ever remember someone being on the track to get your split time. As you near the accountants of time, you see frowns upon their shaking heads. You wonder what could be wrong, but you keep running. As you pass the accountants, they yell to you, "Not good enough!" Fallen veterans on the field wave fingers of "I told you so," and your own confidence slackens. Your quadriceps begin that low burning feeling and then you notice that...
...lengthens into evening, the cathedral compound fills with the billowing white gabi, or shawls, that envelop men and women alike, serving as turban, blanket, veil. At their own rhythm, people go about the business of worship. Men read from leatherbound lives of the saints; women ululate softly as they lean on tall prayer rests. Everyone will keep the vigil through the night. As darkness falls, shrouded bundles occupy every empty space on the hard, stony ground, huddling around the dim golden flicker of tiny candles...