Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have any need of it. The Negro's woolly black hair once provided insulation against the heat of the blazing tropical sun; his thick lips, by exposing more mucous membrane, may have increased the body's evaporative cooling powers in torrid climates; his characteristically long legs and lean frame were once distinctly helpful to some prehistoric race of hunters...
...suggested topics lean heavily toward problems of local politics, including some subjects that deal specifically with Cambridge. The topics were selected from those suggested by faculty members, students and Institute associates, May said...
...warnings were newsworthy but the game that prompted them is hardly new. Commodities traders wryly note, for instance, that the Old Testament's Joseph was the first man to corner the grain market. After all, when the seven fat years ended in Egypt and the seven lean years began, wasn't Joseph the only man with grain stacked in his barns? Seventeenth century Holland experienced one of the first of the futures markets. Dutchmen became so infatuated with tulips from Asia Minor that they stopped planting and began trading them. Prices rose to the point where one merchant...
...Lean On. And God? Pike firmly rejects the idea of a personal deity who answers prayers or somehow serves as an answer to the mysteries of life. "There is no way that the 'God' whom we could alternately lean on and blame can be made credible again." Nonetheless, the bishop suggests that man's "awareness of the amount of order there is, and of beauty, of joy and love" points to an "ultimate Reality" that is "in the realm of the empirical." Much in the manner of Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Pike seems to regard...
Visible & Viable. The amount of control conglomerates wield over their crazy-quilt acquisitions varies widely. Many of the leading ones keep their headquarters remarkably lean. Litton is proud of the fact that it runs its far-flung empire with a central staff-secretaries and all-of fewer than 250 people. Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. of Textron Inc., a $1.1 billion-a-year complex that makes everything from Sheaffer fountain pens to Bell helicopters, houses his entire headquarters in 1½ floors of a small office building in downtown Providence. So decentralized is Dallas' fast-growing Ling-Temco-Vought...