Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passé. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all, the degree to which he fooled himself...
Georgia (24): All but 2 are instructed for Goldwater, and those 2 lean heavily toward him. Make it 24 for Barry...
Recounting the "lean years of the past three decades, the long interregnum of Harvard theater," Levin compared former President Lowell to St. Patrick, asserting that Lowell's lack of support had in effect banished theater from Harvard "as surely as snakes had been driven from Ireland...
View It Yourself. Not all the fair's good shows, however, are on film or indoors. Several times a day, five Mexican Indians climb a giddy, 114-ft. pole outside the Mexican pavilion. One begins to dance on top of the pole; his four companions lean over backward and fall toward the ground. They are tied to long ropes which are wrapped tightly around the summit of the pole. Hanging upside down, all four men begin to spin in accelerating, expanding, awesomely descending circles as the ropes unwind, righting themselves just in time to drop lightly to the pavement...
...film Something Wild, and it shows a little too much of his tendencies to ward musical reportage. But when Copland had led the orchestra through the explosions of sound that bring the 20-minute work to its sudden, shouted conclusion, the audience greeted him with a standing ovation. Looking lean and youthful at 63, Copland grinned like...