Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, President Auriol had been turned down five times. A sixth candidate was trying, with slim chances of success. The dance has its own logic: in a coalition of central parties in which none has a majority, the party undertaking the coalition must make concessions to buy the support of some other party. Unless he wants to pay an exorbitant price, a buyer must not seem too eager...
...back, she was off, pushing furiously with her ski poles to gain the speed she would have to check, moments later, with a swivel-hip turn. She swept down the dizzying de scent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man. Crouching, straightening, swinging her slim hips in an almost antic mimicry of a rumba step, she darted and danced through the multicolored flags that outlined the course...
Holding only a slim lead as the second period ended, the Crimson freshmen opened up a barrage immediately following halftime. The Yardlings seemed to be able to hit from almost any place on the floor, and their snappy pass work effectively penetrated the Green defense...
...Clinic of Child Development, Dr. Gesell has poked the fists of newborn babies to see how they contracted, taken 300,000 feet of movies showing how more than 12,000 youngsters grew in skills and aptitudes from the cradle to the age of ten.* This week, in a slim volume called Infant Development (Harper; $3.50), Dr. Gesell sums up what he has learned of life and growth...
...Chesterfield's own life was that he gracefully missed every other beat. He served George II ably as ambassador to The Hague, and was probably one of the few lord-lieutenants of Ireland whose blarney charmed the Irish. But solid triumphs abroad never netted him more than slim cabinet posts at home, and George II scornfully dubbed the diminutive earl a "dwarf-baboon...