Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, a U.S. sailor, lunching with a shipmate at Juan-les-Pins' chic Municipal Casino, bet his buddy a dollar that the slim woman under the huge hat at a nearby table was Greta Garbo. The headwaiter relayed Greta's denial: "Sorry, the name is Brooks...
Because of its long, slim prow, the United States is racier-looking than most ocean liners. Its hull is black, its superstructure dazzling white. Around the spacious sundeck, 24 aluminum life boats (capacity: 3,280) glisten in the sun; above it all stand two gigantic red, white & blue stacks. They are the biggest stacks in the world-not because the engines need them (actually the stacks are crammed with air-conditioning equipment, blowers, etc.), but because only stacks of their proportions would look right on such a giant...
...already dedicated to a lifetime of playing Dixie on the human spine, slim, soft-spoken Victor Meyers gave little thought to worldly matters during 1921; at that point he was about to graduate from the Riley School of Chiropractic in Washington, D.C., and to go forth seeking his first sacroiliac. Consequently, when a fraternity brother named Bert offered to wise him up, he listened appreciatively. "You ought to move to Virginia," said Bert. "They don't pay any federal taxes over there. You only have to pay 'em if you live in the District or work...
...polished until he shone: each had been issued a lump of barley sugar, which was supposed to stave off faintness (in at least three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief of the Brigade of Guards, rode on to the parade ground, sitting sidesaddle on a 13-year-old chestnut named Winston. Elizabeth II waved a white-gloved hand to her mother, watching from...
...World War II WACs went about the business of serving their country with more energy or application than slim, dark-eyed Alba Carmen Martinelli. Alba, one of six children of an immigrant Italian engineer, could speak Italian and French when she quit teaching school in Plymouth, Mass, to join the Army. She learned four more languages-Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Tibetan-studied at Stanford and the University of Virginia, and ended up as a major and an adviser to the Korean government...