Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most people the starched white uniforms worn by nurses all look alike-but not to nurses. They are well aware that since Florence Nightingale tended the Crimea wounded in a long, grey tweed wrapper, nurses' uniforms have followed fashion from the Gibson-girl shirtwaist to the pencil-slim sheath. To nurses, the top designer and dressmaker is Manhattan's White Swan Uniforms, Inc. Last week White Swan brought out a fat new catalogue with 98 attractive styles. Newest additions to the line: a high-busted, low-waisted Dior-like model that could almost double as a cocktail dress...
...began to bear fruit, Scelba remarked: "I didn't think this lemon tree would ever blossom, but ..." A few days later, he was Premier. He has survived for 14 months through nine votes of confidence (winning margin only last week: 67 votes) despite his shaky Christian Democrat coalition, slim margin and the devious opposition of party Secretary-General Amintore Fanfani. After attending a Commons session in London this year, Scelba, who must contend with tossed insults, ink pots and punches in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, sighed and said of Britain's Parliament: "It's like...
...Welcome, Billy," they shouted as the train from London chuffed into St. Enoch's station. Then, as a chorus of Scottish voices sang the 23rd Psalm, the men and women of Glasgow, many of them weeping, surged toward the slim young American. Grey hat in one hand, leather-bound Bible in the other, Evangelist Billy Graham joined briefly in the singing, then made his way through a forest of outstretched hands and drove to his hotel. There, under his window, another crowd waited. Said Billy: "We have prayed for Glasgow all the way across the Atlantic...
Dartmouth's quartet jumped off to a fast start in the person of big John Glover, and Creight Hart held a slim lead for the Green at the end of the second lap. But the Crimson's Dave Hawkins and Chouteau Dyer were so close behind that number three man Jack Edwards was able to overtake Dartmouth's Dick Karslake in the next...
...Esme is a slim, wistful artist's model, and a heroin addict. In her lost, grieving face, Wyatt finds inspiration for his forged Madonnas...