Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleary's opening goal at 1:45 of the first period was one of his most spectacular this year and set the Crimson right. O'Malley boosted the sextet's slim 2-1 lead in the second period on a pass from Mahoney, and the first line followed with another pair of tallies to give the team a 5-1 margin after two stanzas...
...years ago, slim, smiling Governor Kubitschek. son of a Polish immigrant, heard somebody say that the 1955 presidential election would be a lottery. Commented Kubitschek: "The governor of Minas Gerais holds a ticket." A year later the left-of-center Partido Social Democratico (P.S.D.) gave Kubitschek the task of touring Brazil and getting local P.S.D. leaders to agree on a 1955 presidential candidate in advance of the party's nominating convention. Kubitschek assiduously set about selling himself. A strong selling point was his record as an industrious builder of roads and hydroelectric plants during his four years as governor...
Winning the 45 yard high hurdles and the 50 yard dash Joel Cohen proved that he has fully recovered from an early season leg injury and should increase the varsity's previously slim chances in the sprints against Yale and Princeton next Tuesday. Captain Bob Rittenburg backed Cohen up with a second in the hurdles...
Almost every morning, a slim figure in a polo coat, leading a small black poodle on a leash, emerges from one of Manhattan's cliff houses on East 66th Street. The doorman gives her a cheery "Good Morning, Miss Kelly." But outside, no head turns. For in her low-heeled shoes and horn-rimmed spectacles, Actress Grace Kelly is all but indistinguishable from any other well-scrubbed young woman of the station-wagon set, armored in good manners, a cool expression, and the secure knowledge that whatever happens, Daddy...
...months behind schedule, will probably not deliver the first plane until 1960. Furthermore, BOAC has serious doubts whether the plane can compete safely over transoceanic air routes. Though its range is listed as 5,100 miles, it drops to 3,900 miles at full payload, leaving only a slim margin of fuel on nonstop flights against stiff North Atlantic headwinds...