Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Kopit chose a standard aspiration, one slightly more common than it is healthy: in Oh Dad, Poor Dad a father dies leaving Our Boy with millions, and presto, there is a pretty girl to pursue the active role in love-making. Our Boy can lean back and enjoy...
...cope with such problems, a firm hand is clearly needed. But even the army, which has taken charge of the country,, is divided by officers' cliques, formed according to military academy classes, regional derivation and family ties. The powerful South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) headed by lean, tough Colonel Kim Chong Pil, 35, who is married to General Park's niece, wields almost limitless authority, can toss almost anyone in jail for almost anything...
...three years at Wisconsin. Polly picked up an M.A. and a Ph.D. She also found her future husband, a tall, lean, kindly medical student ("with a sort of quiet power") named Henry Bunting, the son of a pathology professor in whose class they met. After two years of hiking and bird watching, "we just knew we were going to be married...
...possible to "compose" jazz and keep it fresh? The answer here is yes. Composer-Saxophonist Phil Woods, building in lines both propulsive and direct, has fashioned a five-part work that is always coherent and brimful of relaxed charm. High points are Woods's own sax solos-lean and subtly responsive to the humors of music and musician...
...North American Aviation, "will separate the lucky from the unlucky, the thoughtful from the compulsive-the men, as it were, from the boys." A shakeout of companies is inevitable, as it has been in the maturing stages of every major U.S. industry, from autos to appliances. But for the lean and the resourceful, the sky is no limit. Says Tom Jones: "Space vehicles can and must be built, operated and maintained at a minimum cost without sacrificing performance or reliability. The race will be won by those companies that learn to use the new technology to provide solutions...