Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carolina had grown into a tall, slim, black-eyed girl of 17 when, one day last fall, the Sisters told all 157 girls to line up for inspection. A greying, well-dressed man looked along the line and said: "I'll take that one," and pointed to Carolina. Hastily, the Sisters told him the story of her father. "All the more reason to take her," said he. "She deserves a break...
When he went to Washington in 1939, Graham joined a group of eligible bachelors in a pillared Arlington mansion called Hockley Hall. Slim, attractive Kay Meyer, then 22, who attended Hockley Hall parties, invited all the residents to a coming-out party for her sister Ruth at the Eugene Meyer mansion on Washington's Crescent Place. There Graham met Kay, a $25-a-week editorial assistant on her father's paper. A University of Chicago graduate (and ex-student of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), she was as keen a New Deal supporter as Graham himself. After...
Cataloguers at the Library of Congress last week recorded a new entry: a mile-long microfilm of every Sears, Roebuck catalogue, from the slim booklet of 1892 to 1956's Spring-Summer four-pounder, 1,360 pages long. The film replaced dog-eared issues frayed by generations of historians, playwrights, economists, artists and others seeking a picture of the U.S. past...
...Communist heroes go these days, a slim, hatchet-faced Hungarian army lieutenant named Sandor Iharos is a singular exception. For one thing, he is not a Communist Party member. All he knows about Marxism, he says, he learned by rote in school. And as a soldier he fights strictly from a desk. All Sandor really has to do is run, and he does that so well that he now holds five world records (from 1,500 to 5,000 meters). In sports-happy Hungary, excitement boils any time he shucks his sweat pants and gets to work, for Sandor...
...sharp each morning in a white clapboard house in Milan, Mich., a slim, bald man bounces out of bed, pads into the bathroom, takes up an electric razor in each hand and mows off the night's growth of beard. To Generalist John Sherrod DeTar (rhymes with guitar), 54, new president of the A.A.G.P., this ambidextrous start of the day is just commonsense efficiency. "I have a lot of things to do and I want to save time to do them...