Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wood and Managing Editor B. 0. McAnney, he'waved vaguely: "Well, so long." Then Easton, who is chairman of the W-T & S Guild unit, walked out, followed by ten other Guildsmen on the slim lobster shift. By the time they left the building, a picket line of 150 was already forming. Easton picked up a sign and joined the line. The strike was the Guild's first against a New York City newspaper since the Brooklyn Eagle strike...
Novel No. 51 on Author Grey's production line, The Maverick Queen, follows traditionally slim, traditionally grey-eyed Nebraska Cowboy Line Bradway on an errand of justice to South Pass, tangles him up with the lady leader ("the Maverick Queen") of a gang of cattle rustlers whom he suspects of his pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face...
...Christian Socialists, Belgium's largest party and the only one solidly backing Leopold, had a slim majority in the outgoing Senate but were two seats short of controlling the House of Representatives. By picking up a few more seats in the House, they hoped to control both branches of the incoming Parliament, form a one-party government, bring Leopold back. Actually they did win control of the House (108 seats to the combined opposition's 104), but in the face of surprising Socialist gains, there was a faint chance that the Christian Socialists would lose control...
Johannesburg gave Strydom his answer. Despite the chill winter weather, 50,000 shouting citizens, white and black, crowded round the city hall to cheer for Smuts. The old man stood slim, erect and bareheaded on a dais shaped like a birthday cake, and told South Africans: "Cast fear out of your hearts and put an end to bickering and quarreling. Concentrate on the great things that are on the doorstep...
...Slim, elegant Managing Director Pierre Brisson, 54, who joined Le Figaro in 1934 after a stint as drama critic for Le Temps, has found it easy to laugh off such attacks by the opposition. Since 1945 Le Figaro's circulation has doubled to 400,000. Not so funny, however, has been the opposition from another source-Le Figaro's owner, Mme. Yvonne Cotnareanu, former wife of the late Perfumer François Coty...