Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Flashlight & Six-Gun. Two more marshals came and went before Mayor C. P. Hendrix finally found a long, lean hangover from the old West named Floyd Earl. The new marshal took over like the hero of a TV shoot-'em-up. "This has been my home all my life," says Earl. "I felt like I was just volunteering for military service." With neither uniform nor police car to advertise his authority, Earl prowled his territory after dark, wigwagged at speeders with a flashlight, unlimbered his six-gun and shot at them when they failed to stop. Although...
...that sense, the decathlon poses an impossible challenge. No one man can ever hope to be the absolute best in all ten events. The lean sprinter will have trouble with the shot; the beefy weight man will lumber through the 100 meters. Worse yet, the events are cunningly alternated so that the competitor has no chance to use the same muscles and reflexes twice in succession. The cumulative effect is numbing. Because of his rare combination of speed and strength, Johnson is at his best in the 100 meters, 400 meters, the javelin, discus and shotput. But his weight...
Nathan arrives at work by 4 a.m. every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital...
Benson's successor will also have to drop the old assumption that the years of lean harvests come along and reduce the burdensome surpluses piled up in bountiful crop years. By old-fashioned norms, 1960's wet spring, instead of leading to record harvests, should have brought on poor crops, by interfering with farmers' spring sowing. But modern farm mechanization makes it possible for farmers to get their sowing done fast, during brief letups in the weather. Now a wet spring, storing up ground moisture for summer, brings bigger crops-and bigger headaches for the Secretary...
...most impressive feat of the night was scored by a lean, relaxed broad jumper from Laurel, Miss, named Ralph Boston. Delighted with the feel of the runway, Boston could hardly wait to begin jumping, remained undismayed even after spiking his knee so badly on an early try that he needed three stitches. Three times he flew over 26 ft. Then, arms flailing, Boston soared 26 ft. 11¼ in. to break by 3 in. the world record of Jesse Owens, a landmark of track that had stood for 25 years while every other standard was crumbling away. "Jesse said...