Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cheek. At just about this time, last week's other star witness, an ex-robber named Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'s "pistol local," which today dominates the great piers of the French Line, the United States Lines and the Cunard Steamship...
...only way to stop this sort of thing was to bring the annexation issue to a head. They began circulating petitions calling for a special election, hired a hillbilly band to rally support. When election day came, a few interested citizens dutifully trooped to the polls. By a slim margin they voted to abolish the Pleasant Grove school district and, with it, the Pleasant Grove school board...
...plane also stepped a tall, slim girl, her red-rimmed eyes hidden by sun goggles. Africa watched the Black Maria drive off with the lover she would probably never see again. Then, through the airfield restaurant windows, she caught sight of a gaily lighted tree. "It's Christmas week, isn't it?" she said...
...With Una Slim (left), daughter of Britain's Chief of the Imperial Staff Field Marshal Slim...
...that every reader-and we mean every reader-immediately send from five to ten dollars." The Worker could expect no help from its blood brother across the Atlantic, the London Daily Worker. For months it, too, has been appealing for money on Page One, may have to slim down to a single page, or fold altogether...