Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jewish extremists and had gone home full of untold hatred for the U.S. They watched beadily as the slim, smiling youth received the first, custard-pie impact of an American welcome...
...Operators. Slim, serious-looking Steve Mitchell said he was in a "state of shock" over the appointment (although he had known for days that Stevenson was considering him) and described himself as a "complete amateur." However, Mitchell's amateur standing is open to question. Although he has helped to raise campaign funds for Chicago's Mayor Kennelly and for Stevenson, he is certainly not a professional politician in the old sense. The line of the old pros is running thin as the power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney...
...spot. Suddenly the trailing Such Crust IV, a carbon copy of the Slo-mos, exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water with a hopelessly broken gear box. Dollar finished the second heat all by himself...
...Arvey, Cook County Democratic chairman, accepted Stevenson, whom he had met only a few months before, as the sacrificial lamb. Stevenson swept into office over Green by the biggest margin any candidate ever piled up in Illinois (572,000 votes), while Harry Truman won the state by a slim 33,612. As governor, Stevenson sent state police out to stop commercial gambling downstate when local officials failed to act, lopped 1,300 political hangers-on off the state payroll, replaced patronage with a merit system in the state police force, overhauled the welfare program, pushed through 78 bills to streamline...
Caught by rising costs, he could never bring the price below $800, and even then his profit margin was slim. Crosley production hit a high of 28,000 a year, then skidded. In the last three years, Crosley Motors, Inc. has lost $1 million a year; Powel Crosley has had to pour $3 million of his own money into the company to keep it going...