Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson's words and the Farm Bureau's action indicated that the Administration's new farm program will lean toward "variable" supports and the law of supply and demand...
...work at double time. Last week the National Union of Mineworkers threatened to call a strike of 900 colliery workers unless Willie took his vacation. So Willie did. He hoped that now everyone would be satisfied, but it did seem a bit hard on the kids, who face a lean Christmas because their father, who has long since spent the money he got last summer, will get no pay for the two weeks...
...which ice blocks the size of a ten-story building dance along like pebbles; gaping crevasses whose sinister gullets lead down into a blue-green shade; the ominous huddle of the Everest massif, where three of the world's greatest peaks (Everest. Lhotse and Nuptse) lean threatfully together like three witches...
...punching. Since there are no quotas, the clubs invite as many or as few as they wish. The average is about 15 invitations in those clubs which get a majority of the sophomores they invite. Porcellian, however, will sometimes take only four or five in what members call a "lean" social year. Clubs not so well-endowed financially must send out greater numbers of invitations and must invite more members throughout the year since dues are essential for club up-keep...
...president is the first to admit that his growing college is still far from ideal. The most critical problems are of course financial. During the war and the years afterward, spiraling costs took a severe toll on the school's resources. Jordan tersely summarizes the strictures of these lean years in a sentence from his Report to the Trustees for 1949-50: "We have necessarily grown somewhat shabby during these recent years when the preparation of a budget could only be described as an act of faith...