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Word: leans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year must have seen a pretty but slightly misty-looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge Rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Calamity Pam | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...more civil rights and antipoverty legislation, and by giving Congress notice of his intention to achieve progress at home despite the expenses of war. But the question or Presidential will remained unanswered: can Johnson provide the leadership necessary to pr4eserve and expand the Great Society in the politically lean years as well as the fat ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Test of wills | 1/12/1967 | See Source »

...year's Kodak Senior Teen-Age Movie Award with an evocative, camera-of-the-absurd put-on that showed two leather-jacketed, switch-bladed punks running up and down crumbling ladders, dancing on rooftops, beating up little kids, being chased by two other hoods, and finally escaping to lean wearily, ecstatically, on one another saying, "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" National Student Film Award Winner Eric Camiel, 23, evokes the sympathy most Now People feel for the underdog in his Riff '65, a deadpan portrait of a 15-year-old Manhattan dweller with artistic talent who loses his fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Inheritor | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...document that could easily bring a snort of satisfaction from Charles de Gaulle, who had, after all, been the first in the business of building bridges to the East. The rest of NATO found it all the easier to lean his way because of the new direction in West German policy. After years of intransigence in East-West relations, the Federal Republic under the new grand coalition of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger was doing things that not even De Gaulle could undertake. In its first policy statement to the Bundestag last week, Kiesinger, after placing top priority on good relations with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: New NATO, New Continent | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...does have more sex appeal than, say, ZaSu Pitts, but it is also obvious that a Liz Taylor she's not. If there is an animal splendor about her, it is more pussycat than panther. Her curves do not pop the eyes. Her legs are a little too lean and a mite long (she is 5 ft. 7 in.). Her jaw is on the prognathous side. Her feet are a little less than dainty (size 8); when she played Cinderella on TV, her slipper could almost have fit the Prince. And she's got freckles on her nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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