Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room of Ottawa's Rideau Hall, Winston Churchill sat at a banquet table, ruddy-faced in an atmosphere redolent of brandy and cigars. He was Prime Minister again, and enjoying it. Sitting near him were Lords Ismay, Cherwell and Alexander. Among the 40 guests, few noticed the tall, slim British general seated downtable. But suddenly Churchill waved a brandy glass at the officer and bellowed...
Stock car racing is a slam-bang sport with its own special sound effects-screeching tires, crumpling fenders and ten-car smashups. It requires nerve and verve for a driver to compete with any success. Tops in this careening career is a slim, wiry young (28) man named Julius Timothy Flock of Hapeville, Ga. A onetime auto salesman, "Tim" Flock, who comes from a family of racing drivers, discovered six years ago that racing a car was more profitable than selling one. His estimated income this season...
Four years ago, at 25, Beverly Pepper was the Hollywood image of a rising young career girl. Slim and sleekly tailored, she was vice president and art director of a Manhattan ad agency. But Beverly also suffered one of advertising's occupational diseases: she spent more than half her $16,000-a-year income on psychiatrists. One analyst finally gave her a piece of simple advice for her money: quit being a female executive and be just a female...
...wrong. But on one point he is usually unyielding: he knows the world's best cure. All this misinformation was sadly scattered until two bright and breezy British types decided to "do for the hangover what Dr. Kinsey did for sex." Now they have done it, in a slim volume just published in London entitled Wake Up and Die. It will cure no hangover, but may enliven convalescence...
...Slim & Slick. Manhattan's L. E. Waterman Co. began marketing a ball-point pen with a retractable sapphire tip. Slimmer that a conventional pen, it weighs less than an ounce. Waterman claims that the polished sapphire point is "the smoothest writing instrument ever developed." Price...