Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro d'ltalia, and was acclaimed "the greatest rider of all time." But the 1950 season was one disaster after another, including a.broken collarbone and a cracked pelvis suffered in bike crashes. Last year Fausto tried a comeback. He suffered, instead, a tremendous setback when he saw his younger brother, Serse, killed in a spill...
...What can be done?" the Bureau Acts. "The Russians lean heavily on maternity benefits--through state creches for working mothers and state budget allowances--while Pravda constantly lauds extensive motherhood. We Americans, we hope, operate best through understanding and encouragement...
Careful political observers who have inspected Warren's 70 say that at least 30 are firmly for Eisenhower as a second choice, at least four are solidly for Taft, and 15 will follow Warren's suggestion. The rest lean one way or another. If Warren suggests a vote for Eisenhower, and all the delegates go as they are now leaning, the count will be 56 for Ike, 14 for Taft...
...College. Tugging at his mustache and rumpling his hair, he lectured in a gentle voice, pausing awkwardly now & then to glance at his crumpled fistful of notes, or to gaze distractedly out of the window. But however labored his delivery, his message took hold. Philosophy, he declared, could not lean on eternal verities, nor summon up answers, for there are no ultimate answers to be summoned. "The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution," said he, "it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda...
Aloof and austere at 82, Artist Yeats has lived alone in Dublin since his wife's death in 1947. An old man, and a Protestant in a Catholic land, he has few close friends now. Dublin knows him best as a lean, stooped figure in a navy blue jacket, cut sea-captain style, and black string tie, who is sometimes to be seen rambling through the city...