Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refuge in abstention; every party except the Communists split. But by forcing the Assembly to a decision, Mendes had done what three predecessors had not dared do. He had not succeeded, any more than they, in obtaining the "massive majority" he had asked. But in the end, even a slim majority is still a majority: the bill which officially created the Third Republic (1870-1940) was instituted by but one vote...
...early 1920s a slim, sensitive novel of egotistic passion called Le Diable au Corps electrified French literary circles. Hailed as a minor masterpiece, the book was translated into nine languages, sold close to 3,000,000 copies, and earned for its precocious author, 20-year-old Raymond Radiguet, a secure place in French literature. Like many another convincingly told work of fiction, Radiguet's novel set many readers wondering how much of fiction was really fact. Nowhere did such speculation reach greater heights than in the Marne River town of Saint-Maur, where Radiguet had lived...
...Kill Her?" Slim, graceful Susan Hayes dressed carefully for her appearance. She wore a black wool dress with a prim white collar; she used very little makeup. She was the 31st witness against Sam Sheppard. and her testimony was supposed to supply the motive...
After the war he confided to friends that he was a 20th century Shakespeare, and whipped out two slim volumes of verse and a treatise on modern political theory. Then, with the same confident air, he turned to finance. In three years he established three publishing firms, and an investment company. He had no trouble raising money. Was he not the son of Major Reginald Baker, well known as a cinema magnate and managing director of Baling Studios? Wealthy Sir Bernard Docker and Sir John Mann contributed financial backing, Viscount Astor and Major Henry Legge-Bourke, M.P., were glad...
...roly-poly Trade Unionist named Lahbib Ben Mohammed, who has himself served time in French prisons for his nationalism, led one team into the hills near Jafna, sent word ahead by intermediaries, and sat down on a rocky slope to wait. At the appointed time, a slim, khaki-clad young man, binoculars slung around his neck, pistol bolstered in his belt, suddenly appeared before him. In a few minutes a bargain was struck, and out of hiding rose 22 more outlaws. They surrendered 15 rifles, 1,200 rifle cartridges, 5 revolvers with 200 rounds, and got thumb-printed amnesties...