Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drink. At party after party, lean young lordlings were kicking up their heels with the debutante daughters of wealthy tradesmen. It was all high spirits and higher expense accounts. For the showiest party of all, an army of some 60 technicians was called in to transform the ballroom at Claridge's into a moonlit garden so that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success...
...Lean Years. In Fort Worth, Café Worker H. A. Bristow, 72, got a divorce and a $1,000 community-property settlement after he told the judge that his 79-year-old wife took his paycheck every week, gave him only $1.50 for bus tokens, retrieved the tokens and doled them out to him two a day, forced him to buy coffee from coins he found while sweeping the café, whacked him on the shins with a broom when he tried to see his children by a previous marriage...
...Cagliari (pop. 100,000). The 100,000 villagers now living in the area may see their present $10-an-acre annual yield multiply eightfold, and the whole level of Sardinian farmers' life should rise to levels undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living by herding (or stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after...
Even though he figured to be beaten, lean Jim Bailey, 26, spent a nervous night, and scarcely slept. Calm and confident, Landy, 26, took it easy, loafed through a set of practice miles early on the morning of the race. He got to Los Angeles' vast Coliseum ready to go. Bailey was bushed, and, it seemed, past caring. He stared moodily at the crowd, had a tough time working up to racing pitch...
Second Choice. In Phoenix, Ariz. last May, 491 housewives were given a selection of identical cuts of lean, bright, red, nonaged beef in good and commercial grades and of choice beef-marbled, dark red and well-aged. Without price tags or grade stamps to guide them, more than two-thirds picked the poorer beef. Though such tests cause cowmen to snort contemptuously about women shoppers and "supermarket cattle," they have also caused them to worry. If women shoppers prefer the poorer grades that look fresher and leaner, then cattlemen will breed lean meat...