Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...west, became a bartender in his brother-in-law's New York restaurant, the Café Brittany, on Manhattan's West Side, and began learning the business from the bottom up. "Pigs' feet came first," he explains, "then on toward tête de veau." Today, lean and eager, and sporting a heavy gold ring, he is no man's receptionist. Indeed, Agence France-Presse's New York bureau phones him the French soccer results every Sunday afternoon...
...more, to the deposits; the diggers climbed in and out by bracing their feet and backs against the wall. As shafts went down too closely together, many collapsed; others filled with water. A shanty town sprang up next to the pasture, with a hotel, hundreds of lean-tos and tents. The local dentist kept his tools soaked in cachaga liquor; the baker sold bread at five times the normal price; and a small army of prostitutes paraded around the diggings, lining up appointments...
...economizing on words and lines, Schulz produces a lean, spare, dryly witty strip that avoids the archness and sentimentality of most comics that deal with children. With the barely perceptible wriggle of a line, he can convey a pathos and tenderness beyond the reach of most of his colleagues. The dots at either end of Charlie's mouth sum up six years of concentrated worry. So subtle is Schulz's drawing that some of his best panels are wordless -as when the Peanuts are gathered to observe somberly the first snowflake of winter...
Dead Issue. The former armaments giant certainly could use the business. After making a spectacular postwar recovery that lasted into the end of the 1950s, the firm has had three lean years in a row. Between 1960 and 1963, its earnings were estimated to be below 4% of its sales-barely enough to meet the interest charges on Krupp's large indebtedness. Last year's sales were up about 10%, to an estimated $1.43 billion, but some bankers still feel that Krupp has been resting on its laurels, relying too much on the Kruppianer tradition and too little...
...Again? Ceylon's new chief is a Cambridge graduate whose hobbies are photography and growing orchids. He has twice served as Prime Minister, and said he would follow a "truly nonaligned" foreign policy which, observers thought, would lean toward the West. At home, Senanayake will probably move slowly in denationalizing industry, but he does hope to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were expropriated...