Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rated by George Gallup at 71%, down five points since March but still at a remarkably high level.) Last November Chairman Hall told Ike that three or four major television speeches should be enough to insure his reelection. But the chances for a Republican Congress would then be slim. Told that he must himself work and travel if he wants a G.O.P. Congress, the President replied: "You bet. I know...
Chances for professional opera singers in the U.S. may be slim (see above), but for students in springtime they blossom like daffodils. Last week three U.S. schools offered five modern operas, composed by faculty members and a graduate student and staged by the schools' opera workshops. All of them were in a conservative idiom, ranging in style from Gilbert & Sullivan to Menotti. The five...
...these days of penurious peers and vanishing stately homes, how can one tell whether an Englishman is a genuine member of the Upper Class? Last week, in a slim anthology of aristocratic manners edited by aristocratic Novelist Nancy Mitford (Noblesse Oblige; Hamish Hamilton), England got an answer that has managed to stir up everyone from Novelist Graham Greene to Actor John Loder. Not since Humorist Stephen Potter launched the cult of gamesmanship had the nation been so obsessed as it was over the difference between U (Upper Class...
With the score at three all on Friday, Lou Klein provided the slim margin of victory by edging his opponent on the nineteenth hole...
...absence of history and the absence of passion is visible on the unwrinkled, calm faces of Americans--the simple food, the lack of fresh meat, which is too expensive for every-day fare, the meals taken at odd moments and carelessly served, form the slim and often beautiful bodies, the naive faces, and the empty glances. Alcohol, strictly speaking, could remedy this situation. And it is true that after six o'clock in the evening, at parties and in bars, cocktails, whiskies, and gin-and-tonics--which, everyone knows, has a quinine base--plunge three quarters of the population into...