Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonds. Rates will start at 2% and move up gradually to 3% by 1964. A sinking fund will be started to buy up the bonds in the free market or pay them off by lots at par-$1,000 plus $100 settlement on back interest. It was a lean agreement-the leanest yet in the Council's history-but the council told bondholders it was the best they could expect from sorely strained Bolivia...
SPEED SPEED SPEED that governs the lives of all wire-service men, U.P. duty has called forth a lean and hungry breed of newsmen who swear they are the world's finest. And some of them...
What distinguishes all this from other purposeful literary nightmares that professed to see the ghost of fascism on the American scene during the '30s is that West brought enough invention to one page for most novelists to spread thin over a book, and a style as lean and resourceful as a hungry wildcat. Above all, West was not parochial, did not advocate political or social systems. He was one of those men in whom pity must take the form of anger, but his anger was not anything as simple as anti-American or anti-Babbitt; it was anti-human...
...major networks? "I struggled with my conscience for 48 hours before giving my decision," says Crosby. "I am going to continue my column just as before, and CBS is fully aware that they will still get scathing criticism from me. In fact, I am afraid I will lean over backward and belt the hell out of CBS-that is the real problem." He expects no gripes from other networks. CBS TV Program Director Hubbell Robinson thinks that Crosby "is a man of sufficient integrity to handle both jobs very well." The Herald Tribune, which Crosby did not consult about...
This politeness was the keynote of the trial for treason in March 1953 of lean, handsome Playwright Henrique Galvao, a onetime captain in the Portuguese army whose loyal service in the cause of Salazar had earned him a high place in the nation's African colonial service. Few know precisely what brought about Galvao's downfall, beyond the fact that a series of charges laid by him against the colonial administration soon after he returned to Portugal to take a seat in the National Assembly led to the dismissal of one of Salazar's top colonial hands...