Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bushman, furthermore, is a Chicago boy. He was born in French West Africa, it is true, and after being captured was nursed for a year by a native woman. But he was forwarded to the zoo as soon as he was weaned, and his keeper, a lean, wiry fellow named Eddie Robinson, immediately taught him to wrestle, tackle and pass a football on the Lincoln Park lawn. This ended when Bushman was six Conscious of his 160 Ibs., he good-naturedly refused to go back to his cage one day; it took sweating zoo attendants three hours...
Washington's lean, lanky Senator Harry P. Cain has been called "the No. 1 real-estate lobbyist in America," and says he considers it a compliment. Last week Cain proved his claim to the title...
...part of a free market, Brannan's experts dug out plenty of explanations: with its $220 billion national income, the U.S. was eating a lot higher off the hog. (This year's pork consumption is approaching 82 Ibs. per person, compared to 70 Ibs. last year, a lean 48 Ibs. in 1935.) Moreover, even at present prices, pork was still a bargain compared to beef and lamb, and many housewives were buying more of it instead. But the lesson that seemed to have been lost on Charlie Brannan was that a growing U.S. economy perhaps did not require...
...Including lean meat, but excluding: meat fat animal lard, butter or whole milk; fatty fish such as salmon; egg yolk...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Mac lean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...