Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's finances, the Suez crisis will cut two ways. Not only will Britain lose the money it makes selling oil from its Middle Eastern fields, but it may also have to shell out as much as $500 million to $600 million from its slim $2.2 billion gold-and-dollar reserves to buy oil in the West. Though Britain's treasury hopes to muddle through, its reserves will probably tumble to a new postwar...
...term G.O.P. Congressman Hal Holmes, 54. Eastern Washington wheat farmers pinned their approval on Fellow Farmer Frank LeRoux of Walla Walla, who led Holmes by 1,200 after 142,000 votes in twelve counties had been totaled. But 10,000 absentees swung the decision back to Holmes by a slim 1,000 votes...
...hunts wolves, wins a pot on a horse race and finally satisfies his ambition-a ranch of his own. But all the time he progresses in the field of livestock, he is tethered to that stock character of all cowtowns, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Gallic is slim and blonde and high-breasted, and it was love for both from the first time he paid cash on the barrelhead. When Lat becomes a big man, it is plain that Gallic will not do. But the educated niece of a prosperous storekeeper will and does, at the cost...
...Colorado, Two-Time Loser John A. Carroll, 55, whose chances of defeating former Governor Dan Thornton appeared so slim that the Democratic National Com mittee declined to finance his campaign, hung together enough votes to win the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Eugene Millikin-a seat the Democrats cheerfully accepted as an unexpected gift...
There was one small, slim chance to bring off his defiance: to take his case to the United Nations. Premier Nagy must have realized that this act would, in effect, be the signal for the final Soviet shutdown, but he took...