Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese managed to isolate the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.* For three days, their comrades tried in vain to relieve the Gloucesters. With most of their ammunition gone, the Gloucesters' commanding officer ordered his men to break out any way they could. Maurice ("Mike") Harvey, a slim, spectacled young captain, was one of the few who made...
...sales as well as profits, General Motors was tops. And with a big slice of G.M. income to fatten its earnings, Du Pont, though it ranked only 13th in sales, stood fourth in profits. Contrariwise, some companies with big sales ranked relatively poorly in profits, because of traditionally slim profit margins. A notable example: A & P (which has not yet finished auditing its fiscal 1950 sales, but expects a tidy increase) ranks fifth in sales but only 16th in profits...
...Moody's appointment boosted the Democrats' slim majority in the U.S. Senate by two votes, changing the line-up to 50 Democrats and 46 Republicans. The increase gives them the right to bump one Republican off a major committee. Possible choice: Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy off the Appropriations Committee, where he can make trouble on State Department requests for money. Probable Republican choice to succeed Vandenberg on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee: Owen Brewster of Maine, no isolationist but an outspoken enemy of the Administration and of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Ward mixed fast and slow pitches to hold the Crusaders all but helpless. But one of the hits off the slim righty was a triple, following White's error in the unlucky seventh...
...frame up a case, a Peronista-packed Parliamentary Commission had dug through La Prensa's files for a month in search of irregularities. Pickings were evidently slim. The worst crime the commission could find to charge against the newspaper was that it used the United Press news service, and paid the U.P. $8,000 a week; that proved that La Prensa was a foreign-bossed enterprise...