Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stands for another hundred years it will probably never experience anything quite as sensational as the arrival last month of a new boy named Alexander Garza. Garza hit school the way the twister hit grandpa's barn. His appearance alone was enough to turn heads: he was a slim, tough-looking youth who sported a mustache, long sideburns and a goatee, wore blue jeans, a maroon jacket and a snap brim hat, and simultaneously smoked a cigar and chewed bubble...
...slim but full-figured, Patrice Munsel is typical of a new kind of grand-opera star-as un-European, as American, as Ethel Merman or Mary Martin.* In European opera, with its polished Viennese, its lyric but undisciplined Italians, its meticulous Germans, there is nothing quite like...
...orange & black huddle broke up, the Princeton team trotted into its single-wing formation. The quarterback barked, the ball shot back from the center. The slim tailback with No. 42 on his jersey took the pass, waist high; with practiced ease he threw a screen pass. It was good for a first down on the Harvard ten. On the next play, pivoting as precisely as a ballet dancer, No. 42 ran-he didn't seem to be running very fast-toward the right sideline. Harvard tacklers closed in. Just before they were on him, and with hardly a break...
John said there's a slim chance that this riot will fizzle out like that Dartmouth one." The whole force of 25 men will be on duty from 7 p.m. "until things are quiet...
...Probably only the Bevanites are happy about the recent British election," said David Owen, professor of History, at the Leverett House forum last night All six of Bevans' followers were elected in doubtful constituencies, while the slim Conservative majority was largely due to the liberal vote. In 1950 the Liberals ran 475 candidates, while this year they ran only 109. Thus many former Liberals had to choose between the other two parties. Apparently a majority of them voted conservative...