Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Last week the Gallup Poll reported that 71% of U.S. Catholic voters lean toward Kennedy, 26% toward Nixon, with 3% undecided...
...years has sentiment been so closely divided or opinion so fluid." So wrote Dr. George Gallup last week after taking his third poll of the presidential campaign. For the first time since the conventions, Kennedy took the lead, if a slight one. Asked which candidate they favor or "lean" toward favoring, 48% of the voters chose Kennedy, 47% Nixon. Only 5% were undecided (a percentage considered too low by both candidates). In Gallup's first poll, immediately after the Republican Convention, Nixon led Kennedy 50% to 44%. In the second poll the two were tied with...
...bitterly segregationist Pine Bluff had learned a lesson from Little Rock, 45 miles away. And lean, responsible Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway school board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...
Meanwhile, poor Esther Williams presumably still could not fathom it all, still may be wondering if she could ever "find a man I can lean on who knows his job. I don't think that's possible in the world of mediocrity known as the television industry...
...Lean, bespectacled Clarence Francis is an expert at diversifying: he vastly expanded General Foods' product line, was one of the first movers of the revolution in the U.S. kitchen. He is also at home in Government circles and in the world of Wall Street finance, where Studebaker's mergers may have to be worked out. Choosing a man whose experience is so remote from auto manufacturing marks a victory for S-P executives who have urged acquisitions in nonauto fields. Harold Churchill will henceforth take a back seat while Francis scurries around, looking for mergers...