Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite the good intentions of the Admissions Committee, its selections are limited by the choices of the applicants. In most cases those students who can overcome the prejudice against Harvard that exists strongly around the U.S., come from backgrounds which lean toward or admire the East; and those who are equipped to handle the academic requirements of Harvard usually possess a sophistication which allows them to be easily assimilated into the predominating intellectual atmosphere. The rarity of extreme local accents at Harvard suggests a group of students who are already conscious of and are trying to suppress their regionality. They...
...When he was working around New York, he tried out for roles in a few musicals, met his wife when he was singing in a stock-company production of The Student Prince: "We were sitting on a wardrobe trunk, and it became plain that it would be easier to lean on each other than sit up straight. This led, eventually, to five kids...
...measure with Mae West's 38-24-38. "I like 'em tight, girls," growled Mae, and was soon jammed into costumes in which she could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...
...latest in a series of exposés on congressional nepotism, payroll high jinks and money-hungry Congressmen that have boiled out of Capitol Hill in the past two months. And the man behind the Harmon story was the newsman behind the entire series: Scripps-Howard's lean, bow-tied Vance Henry Trimble, 45, a shirtsleeve reporter who got his beats by dogged digging in a city where newsmen often settle for the mimeographed handout and the formal press conference...
...wail of jazz drifts smokily through San Francisco bistros, the lean man with the horn-rimmed glasses and a grey-flecked crew-cut walks up to the bar and acts like the squarest square from Endsville. He orders milk. But from the Red Garter to the Purple Onion, not an eyebrow lifts. Everyone knows that on matters that count-a beat and a lyric-Columnist Ralph Gleason. 42, has a taste so cool that he turns out much of the solid reporting and comment on the convoluted world of jazz...