Word: leans
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...alienating people now, but I assure you that restraint is a very temporary thing. I'm sure it's going to get worse. The gap is still too big. There is no communication between the stable, experienced people and the younger people who have no experience to lean on. There is so little passage of knowledge and awareness...
Spengler and Enscoe ran shoulder to shoulder for the last lap, and the final margin of victory was only a lean at the tape. Spengler, who also finished fourth in the 1000 and ran on the winning two-mile relay team, was voted the meet's outstanding performer...
...architects did even better. They designed two strikingly handsome buildings, and hardly disturbed the rest of the site. One is a lean, elegant little concrete and glass container for top management. The other, says Gordon Bunshaft, S.O.M.'s partner in charge, "has real guts." From the main approach, this building looks quite small-three stories tall and 255 ft. wide. A view of its profile reveals much more. The building stretches 525 ft. from end to end, spanning a deep natural ravine. By filling that ravine, the brawny structure acts as a dam for a two-acre lake...
Most of today's economists, however, have been reared in the Keynesian faith, and they lean toward the Democratic Party. The monetarists, on the other hand, tend to identify with Republicans. The ensuing clash of philosophies thus involves high policy, politics and the fervor of a religious schism. Nixon's half-successful jawboning against steel-price increases suggests that Friedman may have lost his most illustrious convert. After his recently televised "conversation," the President remarked casually to a startled TV commentator: "I am now a Keynesian...
...clear, serviceable prose, less careless than Agatha Christie's and less precious than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers' rococo creation, Lord Peter Wimsey. Both were lean, languid young noblemen who spoke in the high whine that Waugh classified as the British upper class baying for broken glass. Both concealed great skill and cunning behind a facade of graceful, gratuitous vagueness...