Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Russell decreased his slim chance last week when, in an obvious bid for labor support, he declared that the Taft-Hartley Act "must be supplanted by new legislation." The Virginia state convention, which had been considered certain to support him, reacted against his Taft-Hartley statement by sending an uninstructed delegation...
...that agreement rested Barkley's slim hope for the nomination. It was not good enough. Too many of the party leaders knew that the Democrats are facing the fight of a generation against the G.O.P. ticket of Eisenhower and Nixon...
...this summer, Charles Keene's neglected drawings have brought little more than they did while he was alive. London's shops have been selling them for as little as $15, and the market has been slim. Thanks to the current hat-flinging, the price of Keenes should be moving...
Many of this week's visitors (see SPORT) were as interested in seeing how Finland, in the role of little David, stands off the big Goliath on its right, as in watching slim young men in gym suits do the running broad jump. They saw little in Helsinki to remind them of a menace ever present. As in West Berlin, the people who live closest to danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum...
...chances of a no-hitter are very slim; of some 50,000 major league games, only 86 have been no-hitters. The "perfect game"-i.e., a no-hitter with no batter reaching base on a walk or error-has not been achieved in the major leagues since 1922.* Last week Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Carl Erskine missed the perfect game by the scant margin of a base on balls to-of all people-Pitcher Willie Ramsdell, weakest hitter of the Chicago Cubs...