Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago, had won the 1952 winter Olympics' first gold medal when she skimmed flawlessly down the giant slalom course. Then, in the downhill race, Andy came a cropper, skidding to two bad spills. Such jarring tumbles might well shatter the nerve of an ordinary competitor, but slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this looks like...
Brown soundly defeated the Crimson, 7 to 3, two weeks ago at Providence, and since then has beaten Dartmouth twice, Princeton, and Northeastern, while losing to B.C. After Harvard's showing in Monday's 14 to 3 shellacking by the Terriers, the Crimson chances look very slim, especially against a team whose first line (Bobby Wheeler, Don Sennott, and Al Gubbins) has racked up 54 goals and 61 assists in 16 games...
...boarding their prize in Treasure Island style, the pirates ordered the Wing Sang's skipper aboard their ship. He was greeted by a raffish crew of about 70 young Chinese in faded khaki and peaked military caps, and with Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger or two as hostages...
...Royal Naval College at Osborne. He liked the navy, and the navy's simple life; he ate with relish the traditional bread, cheese and onions-washed down with beer-before turning in at night. He once got himself punished for letting off fireworks in the head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual...
Burt Lancaster has got just the kind of slim-hipped, narrow waisted, barrel-chested, broad-shouldered, square-jawed physique that looks good in those tight uniforms they issue in the French Foreign Legion. Lancaster looks even better when he starts moving around, leaping on horses, wrestling with Riffs and Arabian princesses...