Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half, the Sooners really got hot. Stubby Don Brown (5 ft. 9 in., 183 Ibs.) barreled out of his left-tackle position and recovered a California fumble. From his own 13-yard line, lean Gene Calame took off in the option play. Circling behind the quarterback. Halfback Buddy Leake caught Calame's lateral without hitching his stride, raced a couple of steps and whipped a long forward pass downfield. On the Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes...
...huge red-and-gold concert hall of Paris' Palais de Chaillot last week, the International Cooperative Alliance, central body of the world's cooperative societies, opened its 19th congress. No sooner did the meeting get under way than lean, dark-haired Andrei Timofeev, leader of the 30-member Soviet delegation, jumped to his feet and put in motion a Russian plan aimed at seizing control of the world cooperative organization...
Nobody could be told, of course, for fear grandfather would forbid them to play with the baby, the way he had with the goats. So they kept it in a lean-to in a secret part of the woods, and fed it on stolen milk ("You got to wet its whistle," Harry explained, "near every hour of the day"), and changed its diaper the way Harry had seen his mother do with Davy. At night Harry slipped out of the window when everyone was asleep, and went to the lean-to "to protect [the baby] from the wolves...
Four Sonatas for Piano (Zadel Skolovsky; Columbia). A talented pianist enthusiastically takes on four distinctive 20th century styles: Scriabin's still-misty modernity (Sonata No. 4); Alban Berg's early and rather turbid atonality (Sonata, Op. 1) ; Bartok's lean, athletic, but vividly coherent paganism (Sonata); and Hindemith's smooth-flowing manner that says little at great length (Sonata No. 2). The performances are clean and sure...
...ones, the lean ones ; the mean kind dirty clean) all except the green ones