Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Thought of Power. The passion for public anonymity is readily understandable at the individual level. Every alcoholic needs pals on whom he can lean for help, and whom he can help to bolster his own ego. At the organizational level, the anonymity is more complex. Bill W., a forceful speaker with a cutting wit, explains: "Identification leads to power drives. The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place. A.A. takes no denominational, political or economic stands. It stays out of controversy. We do not claim that anonymity is a virtue. Rather...
...Fold in the left leg and put the left foot so that the heel is pushed well into the fold of the groin . . . Then fold in the right leg, grasp the foot and place its sole uppermost on the folded left leg . . . Sit up straight and then without pausing lean the trunk forwards as far as possible, stretching the arms vigorously behind you, right hand grasping left wrist. . . Breathe deeply in this position for a few seconds, then...
...showdown for the deter mined rivals for power, lean, bearded Patrice Lumumba, 35, and roly-poly Joseph Kasavubu, 43. Before the crucial vote to choose the national leadership, the newly elected Deputies ranged widely through an array of foreign and domestic issues. One rose to complain that the Belgians had not provided delegates with cars ("It's a scandal that one of our Senate colleagues had to walk to work this morning!"). Another, wearing a kind of beanie with a beelike antenna, kept urging the legislators to mind their manners, hardly deterring the wag who cried periodically, "When...
...More important, because Finisterre's lines are far from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage of the long and lean. Though Finisterre finished 31st in the Bermuda fleet, her handicap of 24 hr. 41 min. gave her victory...
...When the lean, weathered colonel took command of the Army's "Mech and Tech" school four years ago, he found that there had been little change in training since the early days of World War II. "But there is 100 years', perhaps a thousand years', difference in terms of warfare," says Polich. At a time when five enlisted men are supposed to operate nuclear-armed battlefield missiles with the power of 1,000 World War II bombers, instructors were still droning through confusing, poorly illustrated lectures more likely to put students to sleep than turn them into...