Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their choice: General Theodor Koerner, a spade-bearded septuagenarian (78), who was born an aristocrat and served as an officer in the imperial army, but long ago dropped the von from his name, turned Socialist, and after World War II became mayor of Vienna. His defeated opponent (by a slim margin): Dr. Heinrich Gleissner, candidate for the Christian-Democratic People's Party, governor of Upper Austria, and onetime civil servant in Austria's antiSocialist, pro-clerical Dollfuss government. It was the second time in three weeks that Austrians went to the polls to vote for a President...
...items in interstate commerce. Then it pointed out that Congress could bind non-signers by an amendment to the 1937 Miller-Tydings Act, which made state fair-trade laws possible by exempting fair traders from prosecution for price-fixing under antitrust laws. But chances for such an amendment are slim; fair-trade now has a lot of enemies it did not have...
...Maybe, Father, if you write something, he might know it," suggested a slim youngster with a leg wound. But the writing, like the voices and the questions, stirred no response...
Sheeler, whose wife had died during his twelve years in prison, was now 35. He had spent much of the time behind bars trying to educate himself; he betrayed no bitterness. Sobs shook his slim body when he was freed. But afterwards, he said, quoting a Chinese proverb: "He who seeks revenge digs two graves...
Ever since plump brunette dancer Margarita Carmen Cansino became a slim red-haired actress named Rita Hayworth, she has striven purposefully to live up to her rising station in life. When she dropped Husband No. 1, Eddie Judson (who also served as a valuable business manager), she contented herself with the casual observation: "I didn't have any fun." When she divorced Husband No. 2, Orson Welles, she felt called upon to explain somewhat more precisely: "I just can't take his genius any more." But when it came to explaining the decline of her romance with Husband...