Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Finals Rodeo in Dallas, the cowpoke stared coldly at a mottled grey bronc, puffed an inch-long butt, and spat contemptuously into the dirt. "Keep your eyes open," warned a bystander. "That Blue Boy's a rank old s.o.b." Nodding brusquely, Kenny Mc Lean hiked up his scuffed leather chaps, swung over the rail, settled gingerly into the saddle, and in the awkward tradition of rodeo riding, he dug his spurs hard into Blue Boy's neck...
...personal life, Rocky still seems a cinch for re-election next year as Governor-a prerequisite to the 1964 nomination. So far, few candidates of either party have seemed eager to test him for Governor. But last week two-term U.S. Representative Samuel S. (for Studdiford) Stratton, 45, a lean, attractive Democrat from upstate Schenectady, announced that he would try for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In the past, Stratton has done handsomely in generally Republican territory-to the point that the 1961 Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered him out of his district. But were he to get the Democratic nomination...
...Anna and their children - John, 15, and Caroline, 13 - Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, returned to the powder-blue crew quarters of Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn: "We've had a wonderful Christmas - our very best. There...
...During these lean years of Down Under tennis, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper still managed to win the Davis Cup in 1957; they might have repeated in 1958 if Peruvian Alex Olmedo had not carried the U.S. to victory. Both turned pro with varying success: Cooper has done well, but Anderson is erratic and unspectacular. They were ably replaced as Davis Cuppers by Fraser, Laver and Emerson...
...full of whisky ("No booze, no laughs" was his motto) before going onstage to sing and dance and do improvisations, low comedy, and devastating imitations of more celebrated performers. Retreating to New York, and turned down for service in World War II on physical grounds, Gleason spent several professionally lean years doing club work and bit parts in Broadway shows...