Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year and has already received more inquiries than it got in all of 1963. Turner Greenhouses of Goldsboro, N.C., sold $50,000 worth five years ago, while last year its sales amounted to $250,000. Turner's least expensive model is a plastic-covered 7-by-8-ft. lean-to built over the door or window of a house through which it derives its heat. A 25-by-50-ft.-square greenhouse, with all-aluminum construction, fully automatic controls, an independent oil furnace and a potting shed, can cost about $20,000. Automatic controls, available even...
...butting in, the schoolwork, I mean," says he. "I'm not going to college, of course. Leaving school is like burning all your bridges. But painting is purely individual; it may be the only profession where you can do this." Such dedicated talk does not mean that the lean youth with long fair locks is an isolated, inhibited child prodigy; he is, rather, the neighborhood swinger, who now zaps around in his second vermilion Corvette Sting Ray sports car, having cracked up the first last summer...
Died. Nicholas Joy, 80, London-born character actor whose hair turned grey at 22, giving him a half-century to play an all-purpose, Anglo-American Blimp-the lean, mean subspecies-in more than 100 plays and films, notably The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn's papa), The Iceman Cometh (the Boer War bore), sitting in so many stage wing chairs puffing Corona Coronas that he developed phlebitis, occupational ailment of English clubmen; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...Milwaukee-170 a pint. Italian housewives have to pay 290 apiece for oranges that cost them 210 last year, and the common varieties of pasta have risen from 90 a Ib. to 130. In Paris, where the price of steak is $1.22 a Ib. (for biftek, the lean cuts from the round, rump or tip), a cheap restaurant lunch runs to $1.50, and $4 lunches are common. The well-pressed Frenchman has to pay $70 to $100 for a suit (or $200 if it is custom made) and $2 to have it dry cleaned, about $8 for a shirt...
Prisoners are fed at six and six. The morning meal consists of three cold biscuits. The whites are served first, (theirs may be warm--I don't know), a strip of "streak-o'-lean" bacon, and a tablespoon of cane syrup. Supper is one slab of cornbread (cold again), rice, and red beans. Prisoners are given a mattress and a blanket upon arrival, to be returned upon release. No uniforms are issued and neither are packages of fresh clothing permitted...