Word: slim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight of the plan, and of Argentina, was summed up in a blunt letter written to Perón by slim, brisk Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired. As president of the Inter-American Construction Corp., Lord was hired by Perón last winter (TIME, Feb. 3) to draw blueprints for the plan's engineering projects. From his cluttered headquarters on Buenos Aires' Calle Uruguay, General Lord wrote...
Dissatisfied with this slim margin of safety, although he was never in trouble until the last inning, Harrison poled a long fly into left center field. The Eliot fielder misjudged it, and by the time he had retrieved the ball right hander Harrison was well on his way safely home...
...stroke in the number one shell, Bolles had Frank Cunningham, a 1942 150-pounder with a barrel chest and slim hips, who yesterday was chosen, along with number five, Jud Gale, for a Seattle sportswriter's all-star crew. Cunningham led the Crimson to victories at Annapolis, Princeton, and the Thames, besides at Lake Washington, which gives the Varsity an unofficial national championship...
...reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated's needle-slim XB-46, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, now being adapted to jet propulsion...
...unpredictable colleagues. The joke that there were 50 other G.O.P. candidates for President in the Senate was not a joke but a fact which made bossing the Senate just about impossible. Freshmen Senators like New York's Irving Ives insisted upon being heard. The Republican majority was so slim that a handful of mavericks could upset schedules and applecarts...