Word: leanness
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...touring Asia with a traveling theater company, the young Mills was spotted by Noël Coward, who helped him find good parts in London, some in plays (Cavalcade) and films (In Which We Serve) by Coward. Mills won an Oscar for his supporting role as a mute in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter. Lean also directed him in Great Expectations and Hobson's Choice. The nimble, enduring Mills, who appeared in more than 100 movies, made four with his daughter Hayley, including Tiger Bay and The Chalk Garden...
...lunch, after fighting you for the check, Mehlman would lean in and say: above all, Bush won because we understood what this election was all about: the single most important issue to Republicans and swing voters was the war on terror—and we were disciplined and focused about making sure Bush seemed like the better commander-in-chief...
...same, but people in their 50s and 60s can afford to be anywhere from 4 to 37 Ibs. heavier. Andres, a gerontologist who has been studying the effect of weight gain on aging for more than five years, feels that after the age of 20, almost any normally lean person can put on about a pound a year...
...church affiliation, religion is serious and real to him. As his friend Roy Blount says, "He's been off to college, gotten divorced, learned to drink. But he hasn't severed his roots." Keillor likes the old hymns, he says, because "they express faith, which I lean towards as the basis of the good life...
...which Lombroso's work L'Homme Criminel was a textbook. One day the professor read to us from the book certain characteristics by which born criminals could be identified, some of which were "profusion of hair on the head, sparsity of hair on the face, and lean jaws constantly in motion," whereupon one of the students called out, "You have just described my wife!" Frank Jost Newson Edmonton, Alta...