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Word: leans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After seven fat years, the greatest danger confronting the U.S. economy is not seven lean ones. Warned Lyndon Johnson last week in his annual Economic Report to Congress: "The pace now is-and in the months ahead will be-too fast for safety." Agreed the President's Council of Economic Advisers in a supporting statement: "Whatever additional gains in output and employment might be obtained during the inflationary boom would be paid for many times over in a subsequent bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: To Cool a Fever | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...DOLITTLE. The Hugh Lofting children's classic about a pleasingly plump physician who talks to animals has been transformed into a film about a lean ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats them with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering up a set of X rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 2, 1968 | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...DOLITTLE. The Hugh Lofting children's classic about a pleasingly plump physician who talks to animals has been transformed into a film about a lean ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats them with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering up a set of X rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 26, 1968 | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...much worse were it not for the Russian dole of $1,000,000 a day-even though the Russians are no longer appreciated for their contribution. The desperate urge to move in some direction, coupled with the proven inability to do so, has caused Castro's regime to lean more and more on such spectacles as last week's cultural congress. As the congress ended, Castro came up with yet another diversion. Countering the suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner Régis Debray be swapped for Castro Prisoner Huber Matos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: A Time for Diversion | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...gubernatorial election in 1970, was interested in gaining a more prestigious position than that of Speaker and had his sights set on replacing. White as the Secretary of State. At some point White connected the dire need for state welfare cost assumption with Davoren's lean and hungry look. He then did the inconceivable. On December 8, White announced that he would not resign as Secretary of State until the legislature had financed the welfare re-organization scheme...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Daring Days Across the River | 1/17/1968 | See Source »

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