Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first acts of freedom was to set "Beelzebub and his 49 servitors" after the leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Another was his baking of sacred "Cakes of Light ... to breed lust" in all who ate them. To this period, too, belongs the slim volume of pornographic poems entitled Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden...
Poor Leslie. Leslie Lynnton met Jordan Benedict when he dropped in at her gracious old Virginia home to buy a fine horse that Dr. Lynnton owned. Leslie was slim, well read, provocatively frank and altogether charming, an exceptional gal for even the Old Dominion. "Bick" Benedict owned one of the biggest ranches in Texas, couple three million acres or so. He was big, handsome, impetuous and all male. In no time at all he wooed and won Leslie, brought her back to the huge Reata ranch as his wife...
...relman, began plugging immediately for confederation, attacking the old prejudice against Canada,*arguing that union was the only sensible course. "We can survive alone," he conceded, "but . . . only at the price of poverty." When the issue was decided in 1948, Newfoundlanders voted . to join Canada by a slim margin...
Buckingham Palace announced that Field Marshal Sir William Slim, 61, who began his army career as an enlisted private and was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1948, will leave the War Office in November to be Governor General of Australia. Slim's successor: Sir John Harding, now commander in chief of the British Army of the Rhine...
...There were no fish to catch. Another storm blew the Miru north again. Then, 350 miles off the coast of South America, the sea turned ice-cold because of the rapid Peru Current which sweeps northward out of the Antarctic. By this time all the adults were getting one slim meal a day; Dr. Davis himself lost 25 Ibs. But the two small boys, not on rations, had gained weight, as small boys should...