Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing the Game. Wilkinson is handsome, clean-living, hardworking. Long before he decided to run for public office, he was personally known in almost every community in the state with a high school large enough to accommodate the lean, quick youngsters that Bud loved to recruit for his Sooner squad. Wilkinson's pitch to the voters has a simple, conservative consistency that has been characterized as "Basic Bud." "We must," says Bud, "reaffirm our faith in the diffusion of government responsibility and the diffusion of powers." He supports the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so important to oil-rich...
...handsome, soft-spoken man, Rambin will not make any major changes in the lean and conservative way Texaco is run. The company watches each nickel as if it were the last one, pares executive expense accounts, runs a relatively modest advertising program. Just about every capital expense above $15,000 must be personally authorized at the top. To the envy of competitors, this frugality pays off. Despite declines in wholesale gasoline prices in the U.S., Texaco's profits so far this year continue to break records...
...Egypt last week, the Arab summit was over, but one important guest lingered on. He was Saudi Arabia's lean, eagle-beaked Premier Feisal, who during the week-long conference of Middle East leaders had huddled privately with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser with a view to finding a solution in the bitter, two-year war in Yemen...
...Tough Humility." At the heart of Leonhardt's book, though, lies the schizophrenia of a Germany divided-affluent and self-satisfied to the west of the Iron Curtain, lean and paranoid to the east. Earlier conquerors-the Romans, the armies of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War, the Napoleonic French-dropped their Iron Curtains between north and south. Over the centuries there developed a dour, methodical, Protestant North, and an affable, beer-drinking, Catholic South. The East-West split, Leonhardt argues, has cut this historical Germany into quarters and generated an "Athens v. Sparta" complex that most...
...boyish, lean Texan, now 38, is thus the most relentless experimenter in U.S. art. Experiment has led him to make much coy or trashy art, but also it has eventually led him to such original and important work as Tracer (opposite page). He won the Venice Biennale this summer, and his works are now as well known in London and Tokyo as in New York. He and his friend Jasper Johns are the leading painters of their generation...