Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the big (20 feet long) table were gathered the advisers. Among them, on Harry Truman's side, were Secretaries Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, General of the Army Omar Bradley; with Attlee were Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Field Marshal Slim, Air Force Marshal Tedder. For an hour and 35 minutes, vowing they would come to a "mutual understanding," they laid the groundwork for discussions to come. Intermittently, behind closed doors, they talked for five consecutive days, while the noise of the katydids-planned "leaks" and planted rumors-rose around them...
...stand taken for Thursday calls for an Honor Council which would try students accused by others of cheating. This plan defeated a rival proposal, whereby students would voluntarily confess cheating to the Honor Council, by the slim margin of three votes...
Douglas G. Boshkoff '52 of Buffalo, N.Y. and Adams House was elected the Gold Coaster's Student Council representative last night, defeating David L. McElroy '53 by the slim margin of four votes. A forgoten ballot box delayed the voting...
Tyrannous Child. The entire color uproar was brewed inside the head of slim, pensive Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark, 44, who plays bad chess and good cello, is described by a friend as "part child and part tyrant." Goldmark was discovered by the far-ranging Paul Kesten who,-in 1936, thought CBS should know something about the new medium of television. Peter Goldmark, educated as a physicist in Vienna and Berlin, had already done some TV work in Britain and seemed just the man. Since CBS hired him, the network has invested more than $3,000,000 in his projects...
Back, by Henry Green. A slim but engaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME...