Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alec Guinness A PASSAGE TO INDIA. In David Lean's 1984 classic adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, the British actor faithfully portrayed Professor Godbole, an ascetic Hindu wise...
...sport does have its hazards. Gliding along on a pair of molded thermoplastic blades equipped with high-performance ball bearings, skaters can reach speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, which means stopping is no easy feat. Learning to slow down smoothly -- one method is to lean back on the skates' rear-mounted brakes -- takes lots of practice and usually a few spills. Novices should wear hand and knee guards and probably helmets as well. The most common injury: broken wrists from pitching forward onto the pavement...
Having Ron Guidry on the mound was like setting up a tank ready to fire missiles at home plate--all strikes. "Louisiana Lightnin'" was tall and lean and liked to plow fields in his home state during the off-season...
...what a thumbprint it can be. Each term the court must choose the 150 or so cases it will consider out of more than 4,000 petitions. The Justices -- six of whom pool their clerks for this purpose -- lean on the memos of their young assistants to help them pick the cases to hear. Once the docket is ^ selected, the clerks turn out even more detailed documents, called bench memos, exploring and analyzing all possible sides of the disputes, to prepare their Justices for the oral arguments...
After six months, the men taking HGH felt healthier and more energetic, almost like the old characters who were rejuvenated in the movie Cocoon. The group's growth hormone levels rose to those of men under 40. Fatty tissue decreased nearly 15%, lean body mass increased 9%, skin grew 7% thicker and some vertebrae became slightly denser. In several respects, the researchers say, HGH therapy reversed the consequences of a decade or two of aging. Men in the control group showed no significant changes in their physiques...