Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years a slim, changing line of girls-about 800 in all-moved ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a mile from the government fortress. It was operated as a cover by Mrs. Herminia Santos Bush, a handsome, steely matron whose rebel doctor-husband had been forced to flee. There, under flaring skirts, the rebellion's girls donned canvas harnesses equipped with pockets, loaded themselves with messages, gun parts, radios...
...kilotons could be fully detected by seismic inspection stations. On the basis of the five-kiloton report, the U.S. settled down with the Russians at Geneva to try to negotiate a stop-tests agreement with an inspection and detection system-but fully aware that the chances of detection were slim below the five-kiloton underground threshold...
...experts reckoned without a slim, crew-cut young man named Alex Olmedo. Nicknamed "The Chief." for his resemblance to an Inca prince, Olmedo, 22, is a citizen of Peru. He qualified for the team because he had lived in the U.S. longer than the required three years, and Peru had no team of its own. At California's tennis-playing Modesto Junior College and later at the University of Southern California, where he had been sent to have his game sharpened under the watchful eyes of Kramer and other pros. Olmedo had shown promise, but little of the determination...
Lady L., by Romain Gary. A slim blade of a novel, light and flashing, which slips easily in and out of the worlds of Edwardian fashion, Paris slums and political anarchism, slicing surely at the solemn pretensions of those who love humanity more than they love their fellow...
Against New Hampshire in the play off for fifth place, the varsity again started slowly, and was behind, 32 to 23, at the half. Then, down 10 points with eight minutes remaining, the varsity rallied to take a slim lead two minutes from the finish. But the Wildcats came back to tie it up in the closing seconds...