Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force spent its slim appropriations available for tactical air for all-purpose fighters, and got to work on guided missiles. For six years, behind closely guarded walls at the Glenn L. Martin plant near Baltimore, scientists and technicians worked to solve the mysteries of an accurate ground-to- ground guided missile which could be used tactically on the battlefield. Last week, in the Martin Matador, the Air Force thought it had its first tentative answer...
...reply to the Premier). But one by one, the Asians sided with the U.S. Said Crown Prince Savang of Laos (IndoChina) : "This document can bring friendship back to the heart of peoples." Ablest Asian spokesman at the conference was Ceylon's delegate, Finance Minister J. R. Jayewardene, a slim, soft-spoken man with a razor-like tongue. It was interesting, said Jayewardene, that Russia wanted to "insure the people of Japan the fundamental freedoms of expression, of press, religious worship-freedoms," he added acidly, "which the people of the Soviet Union would clearly love to possess and enjoy...
...literary stock exchange, the novels of England's Henry Green rate well up among the blue chips. Readers of Loving, Nothing and Concluding collected dividends in wit and wisdom. Party Going, the sixth of Green's eight slim novels to be published in the U.S., proves that Green can put out penny stock...
...Douglas Aircraft Co. test pilot, climbed into a B29, sat down in its crew's quarters as it took off from Edwards Air Force Base on Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. Under the bomber's belly hung Bill Bridgeman's own baby: the milk-white Douglas Skyrocket, slim, needle-nosed, with four rocket motors...
...palm-slim waist as well as the effusive adulation belong to a green-eyed, reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...