Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballot, would seep into the town of Tuskegee has been heightened by a steady increase in Negro registration-despite the fact that meetings of the all-white board of registrars have been few and far between. White voters still outnumber registered Negro voters, but the margin is growing slim-about...
...facts 'about "organizing" were excluded. (Although some critics, including dissenting Justice Clark, said the court was invading the province of the jury, the Constitution clearly gives the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction "both as to Law and Fact"). Result: the court ordered that five of the defendants (including Slim Connelly) must be freed entirely, but that the other nine could be tried again on the sole basis of their "advocacy and teaching...
Restricted to Camp Whittington, 60 miles from Tokyo, slim, pompadoured Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...
...French position on Algeria. So far, it is the dominant one in French politics. But more and more Frenchmen are beginning to talk more openly about "solutions" for Algeria. None has been so outspoken as thin, hawk-nosed Raymond Aron, respected French political commentator and Sorbonne professor. In a slim book, The Algerian Tragedy, published last week and an immediate sensation in Paris, Aron argues that only false pride prevents Frenchmen from recognizing Algeria's "vocation" for independence...
...most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...