Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes the same trip at 5 m.p.h. The touted freeways designed to aid entrance to and exit from the city are already outgrown, will reach their peak in 1968-eleven years before the entire 1049-mile system will be completed. Most cities have seen their commuter lines dwindle, and lean heavily on inadequate transit systems. Says Boston's Mayor Collins: "If we were to adapt an urban civilization to everybody who's lazy enough to get out of the house right into his car, drive to the office and want to park near it, you'd have...
...harmonies of three early composers best displayed the dynamic control and agility of the Glee Club's voices. After a 'Suabian Folk Song' by Brahms, an arrangement by Vaughan Williams, and an unwitting parody on schmaltz by Paul Creston, richness palled: what the Glee Club needed was more good, lean music like the Bartok 'Three Folk Songs.' To these the Choral Society gave its strongest and most straightforward performance of the evening...
When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath...
...flight through space. In the torrent of questions, he was articulate and at ease. There was honest pride in his great achievement, but Glenn went out of his way to acknowledge the roles of hundreds of others who stood behind him. "We," a word reminiscent of the other lean young colonel of 1927, was always on his lips...
...company would have to buy at least 43 communication satellites at an estimated $1,500,000 apiece and pay the government about $6,000,000 for each launching. And even after the satellite system is in orbit, the Government is likely to keep the company's profits lean by insisting on periodic reductions in rates...