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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind great smoky glasses and a slim umbrella, Greta Garbo landed at Idlewild, home from a visit to Europe. A reporter asked: "What brings you to New York?" Said Garbo before disappearing: "I live here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

SUMMER had broken, and the slim cedars along Quemoy's roadways bent before the first buffeting gusts of autumn. In the fields, the silver, feathery heads of mao-tsao, a grain used for fuel and fodder, swayed like the plumes of medieval knights. At night the moon was almost full, and the pearl and coral-colored bluffs loomed like phantoms above the beaches, pounded by a foamy sea. In other times it was the loveliest of seasons, it was the loveliest of sights. But this year autumn on Quemoy was a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: QUEMOY: AUTUMN NIGHTMARE | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...began when Abdul Hakim, speaker of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, managed to destroy the government's slim parliamentary majority by disqualifying half a dozen government deputies for unlawfully holding state jobs on the side. Outraged government deputies laid down a barrage of paperweights, desk panels and curtain rods, chased him out the door, voted him "insane." Thereupon one of their men, Deputy Speaker Shahid Ali, took over his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Death in the Chair | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...hopeful that a majority of U.N. members could be lined up behind a resolution condemning force in realizing territorial ambitions. (As Dulles was unhappily aware, the chances that he could win an explicit U.N. endorsement of the U.S. backing of Nationalist claims to Quemoy and Matsu were slim indeed.) As for the Chinese Communists, there were indications that they. too. would not mind seeing the crisis discussed in the U.N.. where they could assert their claim to big-power status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Negotiation in Warsaw | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...scandal-smeared Teamsters Union boasts no handsomer showpiece than Harold Gibbons, 48, international vice president and President Jimmy Hoffa's left-hand man. He has been to college, lectured at Harvard. A slim, fit-looking man. he dresses in dignified executive grey, parades a lofty moral code: "Business ethics aren't good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard-Boiled Egghead | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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