Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just don't know which way to turn," Fischer said last night. "Right now I'm trying to get a Presidential appeal, but my best hopes are very slim." The draft board has completely refused to reconsider his case on the grounds that Fischer does not have American citizenship, which allows a conscientious objector status...
...boss of Italy's powerful Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, the Italian state oil and gas authority, is a slim, eagle-beaked man of 48 named Enrico Mattei. To some Italians he is the greatest man in all Italy. To others, and particularly to U.S. businessmen trying to do business in Italy, Enrico Mattei is the biggest and clearest symbol of what is wrong with Italy's economy. Last week, in the Italian press, both sides were shouting bitter arguments at each other...
...During the years that followed, as he grew up to become a clergyman, a teacher and a mathematician, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson kept his alter ego, Carroll, well hidden from disapproving adult eyes. Carroll the storyteller preferred to save his voice for only the very young. In this slim volume, readers will have a chance to judge Lewis Carroll's earliest efforts to please his young listeners. All 16 poems, now published together for the first time in the U.S., were written and illustrated by him when he was only...
Chance For Tickets Slim...
...sensitivity, he could find no tragedy in the end of her independence--her longing to embrace life and soar on her imagination--in the prison of a marriage based on hatred and convention. The Isabel of her words alone seems only the Isabel with whom James began, "the mere slim shade of an innocent and presumptuous girl," the shade to which it was his prime goal to give body and importance...