Word: leans
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...Ration kind of situation, a 'lean and hungry' staff," Orren said. "We were living off the land in a more guerrilla kind of way. But then, those kind of campaigns have been successful in recent years...
...other homosexuals remain touchy about the idea that gays consciously seek danger. They insist that only between 1% and 5% of homosexuals lean toward leather. Says Charles Brydon, co-director of the National Gay Task Force: "There just is not any evidence that gays are into S-M any more than straights are." Though they admit that activities at the bars are remarkably exotic, gays insist that the possibility of bringing home a dangerous sex partner is remote...
...Israeli Cabinet on Feb. 10 approved in principle the right of Jews to settle even in the Arab-populated West Bank town of Hebron, Carter felt that Israel had gone too far. Both at the White House and at the State Department, there was a strong desire to lean hard on Israel. A Security Council resolution condemning the settlements, sponsored by Tunisia and Morocco, seemed a proper means of stepping up U.S. pressure...
...could say he was a man who had gone to pieces, or maybe he'd always been in pieces; maybe he'd arrived unassembled. Various parts of him seemed poorly joined together. His lean, hairy limbs were connected by exaggerated knobs of bone; his black-bearded jaw was as clumsily hinged as a nutcracker. Parts of his life, too, lay separate from other parts. His wife knew almost none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked; it wasn't in a safe part of town, their mother said. Last month's hobby...
...that Lloyd's fat years have been followed by a lean period, this unlimited liability rule and a string of heavy claims threaten the members of some syndicates with personal bankruptcy. Losses totaling about $340 million have been incurred from insuring U.S. computer-lease contracts that were prematurely canceled when IBM came out with a better machine. Furthermore, last year a disastrous 2.3 million tons of shipping were lost-including what may become the biggest marine claim ever, the sinking in the Caribbean in July of a 293,000-ton oil tanker, the Atlantic Empress. In addition, members face...