Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the lights went up again, six deceptively slim and pale-skinned runners were waiting in a lonely and nervous group on the homestretch of the hardwood track. The loudspeakers announced the famed Wanamaker Mile. The crowd rumbled. Even those who did not quite understand the amateur's willingness to suffer for glory could feel the tension; the six were meeting in indoor track's main event, a punishing and uncertain contest which would be won only after all were half dead with blinding, burning fatigue...
Question-mark of the first line is Bitsy Grant, who suffers mostly from a lack of aggressiveness. In exam-period practice, Priddy has been experimenting with Lew Brown in the slot, a tall, slim defenseman who played forward at Exeter...
Crusaders' highly advertised star, slim, 6-ft.-1-in. Bob Cousy, was ill with grippe caused no visible slackening in pace. The platoons of 40-year-old Coach Lester Sheary carried...
...Oxford Street in Cambridge, Mass. lives a sibyl, a priestess of science. Her devotees take their problems to her as devout ancient Greeks took their insolubles to Delphi. She is no mumbling, anonymous priestess, frothing her mouth with riddles. Her name is Bessie*; she is a long, slim, glass-sided machine with 760,000 parts, and the riddles that are put to her and that she unfailingly answers concern such matters as rocket motors, nuclear physics and trigonometric functions...
Norm Watkins, Shep Brown, and Bob Berke built up a slim lead over Dewhom the meet depended, this time as Armond, Presser, and Irwin. Joe Fox and Smyly were once again the men on opposing captains...