Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs in order or say the words, or pray the prayers or cry the tears that must be shed because all of this can only be done when he is permitted the luxury of facing...
...spaced between long plane hops, which give the press ample time to eat and write; Kennedy travels in short flights, is always behind schedule, and the lunch stop is invariably the first item to be cut from the day's itinerary. A current crack among Kennedy's lean staffers: "The Senator has said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry at night, and he expects you to do your part...
...this coincidence? Certainly, said Gould-who added that it was also "providential." As for the Providence Journal's Ogden, a lean, unpoetic and law-abiding 49-year-old, he said smilingly: "Doesn't look like me at all. I'm a distinguished, handsome chap...
...Give Up." While Murtaugh's Pirates have not a rookie among the regulars, Paul Richards' Baltimore Orioles have plenty-along with a sprinkling of veterans like 38-year-old Outfielder Gene Woodling (.282) and 37-year-old Relief Pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm (10-8). Richards, a lean, bronzed Texan right out of High Noon, leaves the veterans alone (as long as they perform), spends so much time with his kids that he is sometimes accused of overmanaging. "Richards has more patience with his players than any manager around," says Coach Lum Harris, who, as player and coach, has been...
...Alabama sharecropper during the summer of 1936. The book begins with 64 starkly beautiful photographs by Walker Evans, probing into the timeless peasant homes and sun-squinting faces of the Deep South, then ravaged by the Depression. Despite centuries of Anglo-Saxon inbreeding, the faces seem Latin: these same lean, starveling families could have emerged as easily from the caves of the Mezzogiorno or the baked hills of Mexico...