Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman al Faisal al Saud, son of the Sultan of Nejd, grew up lean and strong, ignorant of book learning, but a whirlwind in the saddle and a master of desert wile. As a boy, he was made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds...
...wind strung their cheeks as they walked through the Yard. Dinner was the answer to the cold. What to eat? Everyone had steak last night. How about chicken? No, everyone eats chicken on Sunday. Ah spaghetti and a bottle of chanti with spumoni for desert. Perfect. Menu settled, they lean forward in intimate friendship...
...long as a year ago, Marshal Tito had indicated to Anthony Eden that partition of the Trieste territory between Yugoslavia and Italy would be acceptable to him. Clement Attlee and his Labor Party forced the House of Commons into scheduling a debate on Trieste. Worried that the Laborites would lean to Tito's side,* the leader of Italy's non-Communist Socialists, Giuseppe Saragat-with Premier Pella's blessing-dispatched a trusted lieutenant to London to explain to Fellow Socialist Attlee how Laborite opposition to Italy's Trieste claims would further damage the deteriorating Socialist position...
...case of lean, black-haired Utah G. Creek, who has lived all of his 38 years near Raymondville, is typical. He sold all 65 of his dairy cattle, got an average of $58 for milk cows that would have brought an average of $250 last year, $37 for heifers that would have sold for $165. He is going to leave his 500-acre farm for a year or so, hopes to get a job in St. Louis to earn money for another try. Said he: "I've got to come back. This is the only life I know...
...them, helping in an advisory or supervisory capacity. We have contracted a projectionist and artist for the series, at substantially reduced rates. They have promised not to work with other groups in this area, but if an organization wishes us to manage a showing for them, we will lean them our facilities...