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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reformer rid himself of a lot of liberal shibboleths and learned to take on the enemy. He had one more lesson to learn. He entered the Democratic primary for U.S. Senator, and tried to buck the Kelly-Nash machine. He did so well downstate that he actually held a slim majority going into Chicago's Cook County. There the machine votes rolled out and crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...pour Miss Blandish was as different from the old Grand Guignol classics as a Tommy gun is from a thumbscrew. Amid knifings and kneeings, kidnaping and murder, the meaty blonde Miss Blandish (Nicole Riche) spent most of two hours in panties and bra, successfully pursued by drooling Gangster Slim Grisson (Jean-Marc Tennberg). A moving touch for Grand Guignol fans: Old Ma Grisson, the boss of the gang, beats Miss Blandish into submission with a rubber hose so that Slim won't be annoyed by her cries when he rapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Paris Writhes Again | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Jamaica's tall, reed-slim Herb McKenley had astonishing speed and a one-track mind: "All I thought about was a good start and then speed, speed, speed." Outdoors, where cinders and spikes give firm footing and athletes run in chalk-marked lanes, he has done the quarter-mile in 46 seconds, faster than any man in history. But when he tried to run on indoor tracks, where the footing is treacherous and lanes are nonexistent, he learned that he needed more than sheer speed; when fields jam up on sharply banked indoor turns, a judicious elbow shove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Re-Education of a Runner | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Closeted in an Igloo. Undismayed by such catcalls, Invitation this week began a new series on "The Search for Faith" which will leaf through such books as Frazer's Golden Bough, Kierkegaard's Either/Or, and the Epistles of St. Paul Said slim, greying Producer George Crothers: "The bestseller lists are crowded with books like Peace of Mind and Peace of Soul. If people are searching for a faith, we'll help them." On the first program, Provost Mason Gross of Rutgers, Syracuse University's T. V. Smith and Columnist Max Lerner discussed The Guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 69th Most Popular | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented in the quaint misspellings of her slim novel back in 1925, Actress Channing hurls across the footlights in broad strokes of pantomime and bold, certain, exquisitely comical gestures. Her Lorelei is the little golddigger seen through a microscope, an outsized caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Wonderful Leveling Off | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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