Word: leans
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...number two seat of that B.U. boat on Saturday, said that the borrowed shell may have made some difference. "It was the first time we had been in that boat," she said, "and we never really adjusted to it. The rigging was different and the boat did not lean the way our own shell does...
...forbid, Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie slipped out of the house without saying it Thomas Murray would follow them out onto the sidewalk. Sometimes he would catch up to them when they were already in an automobile, and he would lean through a window. "I believe in one God," he would say, and Catherine, Anna, Julia or Marie would...
...forced smile flickered occasionally across the President's lean, aristocratic face as he spoke into the television cameras. "The people of France sent a message to those who govern you. I have received it." So saying, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ordered Premier Raymond Barre-who had resigned only an hour earlier-to form a new Cabinet. Giscard, who was on the defensive after his governing coalition's stunning defeat in last month's municipal elections, defined the goals for the government: 1) mapping the country's economic recovery and 2) charting a program...
...insulating program will heavily lean on industries and companies. Plants and office buildings will have to be weatherized to prevent energy loss. New federal building standards will be promulgated to force a switch from energy-squandering buildings that are cheaper to build but more expensive to operate because they must be air conditioned winter and summer...
...orthodox conductors, interested in Brahms' Brahms rather than their Brahms. Yet how different these interpretations are. Böhm almost seems schizoid about these essentially well-adjusted symphonies, as though he could not make up his mind whether the dreamy, expansive Furtwängler or the lean, surging Toscanini were right. No such problems with Haitink. His Brahms bristles with muscle and the knowledge of a certain destination...