Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plunging into the Democratic primary with the St. Louis press behind him, Tucker beat down the solid opposition of the regular Democrats, triumphed over the machine candidate by a slim (1,500 votes) majority. A month later, with a solid phalanx of G.O.P. and Democratic friends and businessmen behind him, Ray Tucker beat his Republican opponent and became St. Louis' 38th mayor in a stunning (142,839-82,000) landslide...
Slammin' Sam was wisecracking with relief. He was one slim stroke in front of a jammed-up field, still within easy reach of such familiar figures as Doug Ford, San Francisco Amateur Harvie Ward and Defending Champion Jack Burke Jr. A new tournament rule, restricting the final two rounds to the top 40 players, had eliminated such venerable Masters as Golf Professor Ben Hogan and Dentist Gary Middlecoff, 1956 Open champion. But there were 18 rough holes and 39 rugged competitors left...
...Brave One works a slim and simple fable about a boy and a pet bull in Mexico into a lovely and suspenseful film. Director Irving Rappe manages to conceal the obvious contrivances in his plot and setting, which depicts the most opulent peasant life imaginable...
Hanley in the100-yd. freestyle (for failing to touch on a turn), Yale held a slim four-point lead going into the final relay. But in that event Yale was disqualified (for a premature start); Michigan, tying with Michigan State for first place, earned twelve points. Final team standings: Michigan 69, Yale 61, Michigan State...
...tilt with skyscrapers." For the first six months, the skyscrapers knocked her flat; while laying siege to the Herald Tribune (because another woman, far-traveling Marguerite Higgins, had done so well there), she judged jingle contests, publicized a few hotels, and on some days was down to very slim rations. But the Herald Trib finally surrendered, hired her to write women's features. In 1955 Sports Editor Bob Cooke saw a piece she had written on skiing, brought her over to Sports, gave her only one bit of instruction: "I told her to ask any question she wanted...