Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where unpaid volunteers tended the gardens. As her chauffeur-driven car passed through the tall gateway, guarded by policemen with gold chrysanthemums on their collars, Michiko was carried into the secluded "world within the moat" that will be hers next month on her marriage to Crown Prince Akihito, 25. Slim, curly-haired Michiko Shoda is the first commoner in 2,600 years to marry an heir to the imperial throne...
Broken Strike. At the Soviet's 21st Party Congress in Moscow last January, slim, supple Red Boss Aidit could boast the best vote-getting Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed...
...French army corporal-dap means corporal-to guerrilla leader, against first the French and then the Communist Viet Minh, Dap Chhuon had been named Royal Delegate and Governor of the Siemréap area, which includes the renowned ruins of the lost 12th century Khmer civilization of Angkor Wat. Slim, natty Dap Chhuon made Siemréap his personal fief with three battalions of Cambodia's 31,000-man army under his personal command...
...peep-show item. Some readers may be fascinated to learn that Eva Marie Saint has "a perfectly good figure," that Mitzi Gaynor, in the right kind of "red-spangled straight jacket," exhibits a "rounded female figure, good bosom, tiny waist," or that Hedy Lamarr, though "she's slim, actually," does not allow herself to be padded out. As for Anna Magnani, "When she undressed, we were amazed. Under the black slacks and sweater was the most exquisite of black French foundations." Sophia Loren refuses to wear blue jeans, and Designer Head agrees with her: "There's nothing wrong...
...strike at G.M. to give it an initial lead, Ford took off running, has sold something like 500,000 cars for the model year so far, and still leads by 30,000 units. Chevy is creeping up, but it will have to do better than February's slim margin to hold its 1958 title of No. 1 seller...