Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hitch is that Rayburn is 70 years old and Barkley will be 75 in November. No major U.S. party ever nominated a man as old as 70. For that reason, Barkley's and Rayburn's chances are slim. Yet teamed with a younger man as candidate for Vice President (e.g., Stevenson or Harriman), either of the old names might appeal to a badly divided convention...
...just so happens that the Red Sox did the only thing possible to preserve their already slim pennant chances...
...When slim, 29-year-old ex-Convict Leland Ferre was locked up in the little county jail at Monticello, Ill. (pop. 2,612) last March, Sheriff Jason Ripperdam couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Ferre had been indicted for burglarizing a filling station, two stores and a couple of houses. But a chest infection had left him looking sickly. On-top of that, he was a local boy. When a doctor advised that Ferre be given "as much freedom as possible," the sheriff felt it his neighborly duty to agree...
Tall (6 ft., 1 in.) and as slim as in undergraduate days, Dr. Wood walked to the dais with an athlete's loose-jointed stride and crisply announced that he would take "as short a time as possible, so that we may proceed to the main program" (27 highly technical papers). He was as good as his word. Into little more than ten minutes, he compressed a sketch of progress in medical research, practice and teaching as it appears to Young Turk Wood...
...cartoon is really an editorial," Cartoonist Rollin Kirby once said. "It must be judged by what it says rather than the way in which it says it, and what art there is in cartooning is the art of driving the message home." For more than 40 years, slim, courtly Rollin Kirby practiced this art with such skill that he had few peers in U.S. newspaperdom...