Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Clement Dunn, 60, U.S. Ambassador to Italy since 1946. Slim, impeccably tailored, a conservative, wealthy man (his wife is the former Mary Armour of the meat-packing clan), he has been in the State Department for 33 years, has served as assistant to three Secretaries of State, as chief of the Division of European Affairs. Born in Newark, N.J., he became a practicing architect before entering the State Department as a clerk. Dunn's main job has been to keep Italy from falling under Communist control, by cajoling, chivying and maneuvering the. Italian government, without laying himself open...
...Sabre base in Korea one morning last week, a sergeant line mechanic put down his tools as a slim, thin-faced pilot walked by on his way to another hard-stand. "There he goes," said the sergeant in baffled admiration to another mechanic. "The hottest pilot since they invented jets-and so help me, he looks about as aggressive as Bugs Bunny...
...coal and steel. One of two traditional enemies was willing to share with the other the very source of power and strength over which they had fought so often. It might be but a mere pinprick in the barrier of distrust. Yet through that pinprick shone a slim ray that might yet light the way to unity in Europe...
Donald Farnham Gibson was a slim young graduate of Yale medical school when he hung out his shingle in Danbury, Conn, as assistant to the town's leading surgeon. That was in 1929. Over the next ten years he made one of the best reputations in Fairfield County, specializing in urology...
Upperclasmen living in Apley and Claverly have only a slim chance of finding vacancies in the Houses when the February graduates move out, the Registrar's Office said yesterday...