Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tailback Matt Botsford will throw more to upset the Dartmouth defensive alignments. In other attempts to vary his attack Jordan may use tailback Joe Conzelman and quarterback Phil Hanghey as passers and the left handed John Simourian at wingback. Reserve tailback Jim Joslin, a more powerful runner then the slim Botsford, has been bothered by a bad leg, but may be ready today...
...dedicated to his job. Always first on the practice field and last to leave, he never stops polishing his passes. "He's slim (6 ft., 177 lbs.) but well-proportioned," says Coach Stuart Holcomb, "ideal for a T-quarterback. He's the most unusual boy I've ever seen. He can throw anything: fast, slow, long, short, lobs, bullets, dump passes; take your choice...
...hand, asked the delegates not to tie the hands of some future Labor foreign secretary with the negatives of the Bevanite resolution. By stressing the need of executive freedom he asked, in effect, for a vote of confidence in the present leadership. The Attlee motion passed, but by the slim majority of 248,000 out of some six million votes, while Gaitskell heavily defeated Bevan for treasurer...
Many French officers had high praise for these tough peasant-soldiers who could fight in waist-deep water, buffeted by wind and rain, living on no more than a slim rice ration and an occasional frog caught in the paddyfields. They moved stealthily in and out of the villages, spotting Viet Minh spies, harassing the enemy by night and playing the part of noncombatant peasants by day. In one sector the sister of a priest led a group of women in dark brown cotton uniforms, their large pockets always containing a few hand grenades...
...year in which the Dining Hall Department finished with a notable profit was 1951-52 when the financial report showed a surplus of $36,906.22. The following year the Department had a deficit of $1,825.22. Then, starting 1952-53 with a credit balance of $3,506.15, only a slim balance of $1,680 was left at the end of the year...