Word: slenderized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essential to this kind of nonsense is the slender, suffering woman (Carolyn Jones) who stands between two strong but wrong-headed men, endures all of fate's buffets, and at the film's end is a nubile 60, no worse for wear except for a touch of zinc oxide at the temples. She is the beloved of Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), an honest Norwegian salmon fisherman, until ruthless Zeb Kennedy (Richard Burton), a drifting Irishman who is Ryan's best friend, purloins her affections. In Malemute anguish, Ryan harnesses his huskies and mushes off into the Arctic...
...pretext of preparing for an invasion by U.S. Marines and "gangsters" from "that decadent democracy," the government crowd is herding Cubans into mass institutions-militias, cooperatives, government youth groups, and labor unions. The man in charge of collectivizing the economy is Che Guevara, head of the National Bank. A slender asthmatic with an un-Latin habit of curtness, he mastered the complexities of banking in a few months on the job, is all the more feared by anti-Communists for his efficiency...
Even as John Williams whispered last week's quota of complaints on the Senate floor, Budget Bureau Director Maurice Stans appeared before a House committee and pointed with pride to the prospect of a slender $200 million surplus in the $78 billion budget in fiscal 1960 (ending next June 30). But if Senator Williams' findings were any indication of what goes on among federal purchasing agents, it seemed pretty clear that the surplus could have been a lot bigger with a few turns of the screw...
...Seal of the United States. In 1945 a group of Russians had presented it to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Averell Harriman, who hung it over the desk in his study. Opening it like a book, Lodge disclosed that its hinged insides harbored a tiny metallic cylinder with a slender metallic antenna. Lodge explained that it was a "clandestine listening device" used by the Russians to listen in on ambassadorial conversations...
...slender, birdlike woman with an enthusiasm that never runs down, Isabel Bishop was 16 when she started training for a career at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. At the time, she loathed the drudgery of "drawing, drawing, drawing," but she learned to be grateful for it. In 1934 she leased her present studio, and Union Square became her subject. She sketched the lounging bums ("America's only 'leisure class' "), drew the men and women hurrying past a drugstore, or bending over a fountain to get a quick drink, or just eating a hotdog...