Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade ago when Actor William Holden mused aloud: "I really don't know why, but danger has always been an important thing-to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could drive without cracking up." This summer he found an all too tangible answer: his $11,000 Ferrari, whining along at a reported 110 m.p.h. on a limit-free Italian autostrada, crunched into a tiny Fiat, killing a Florentine businessman. Although the actor's driving record has been safe at any speed, an Italian magistrate ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence...
...very least to stop the printing presses and halt the rise of prices and that only then can Indonesia afford to spend any money on the industrial development it so badly needs. In the meantime, if Suharto sticks to his guns, there will inevitably be a long, lean, and politically perilous period of belt tightening. Suharto appears to mean business. At a meeting of Indonesia's Perwari Women's Club last month, he warned his admiring audience that "before this is all over, you all may be out in the streets demonstrating against...
Poison on the Wounds. In his lean and brisk account of the 1956 war, Dayan discusses tactical errors made by his own army and dissects them so frankly that many Israelis are clamoring for his other eye. Typical is the claim, of former Foreign Minister Golda Meir, that Dayan's book drips "poison on the open wounds of bereaved parents" by telling them that their sons were often killed because of Israeli mistakes. If anything, such complaints are a disservice to the man who conceived and executed a brilliant military adventure of such power and daring that the memory...
...left Dietz, once again, with nothing more than scratch. "I still haven't landed or alighted in a job, and am neither married not with children," he wrote in his class report for 1947. But, after a few lean months in a subterranean brownstone apartment in New York, all that changed. Dietz worked in a ladies' hosiery plant, then with a tie manufacturing company, and finally dreamed up the Six-Footer Company. And he met his wife, Annabelle...
That hallowed American folk hero, the lean cowboy with six-gun at hip, swinging smoothly into the saddle-somehow he never had to go to school to learn that stuff. Today's cowboy is more likely to shift gears than spur a pony, and the all-round hand who can do something more useful than strum a guitar is getting so scarce that the Federal Government is trying to train up-to-date cowboys in classes...