Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skim-milk regimens, stirringly stacked (5 ft. 4 in., no Ibs.) Actress Janet (A Girl Can Tell) Blair, who feels 17, looks 25 and is 32, handed out an astonishing prescription for chubby ladies who starve themselves in vain. Advised she: "Try overeating. That's how I stay slim. By eating as much as the average man, a woman gets the energy she needs to burn up her fat. Heavens! You're too weak to do it on a starvation diet. Shovel down big helpings, and you can develop a hollow leg for food. When...
...British aircraft industry, still reeling from the heavy blows of successive Comet crashes, last week bounced off the ropes and back into the center of the ring. After negotiations in London (TiME, June 7), Capital Airlines President J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 47, flew back to the U.S. with the news that he was buying a whole fleet of British turboprop transports, expects to start operating them by next April. He bought three Vickers Viscounts, has an option on 37 more, to replace most of his Constellations, DC-3s and DC-4s. Total price: $45 million...
...bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from the BBC who speak as though they had the Elgin marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional Irishmen (very lepri-corny), and, I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes...
...purely political" and an attempt to muzzle the free press. In Cairo, Western newsmen were a bit skeptical of the cry of "press freedom" in view of the Aboul Fath brothers' brand of journalism, their business dealings and political intrigue. But newsmen were also uneasy about the slim evidence the Nasser government had presented to back up its claim that the offenses were criminal and had nothing to do with politics or Al Misri's editorial policy...
...picnic is part of a slim social apparatus that holds together a group whose main focus is on individual work. The full Society meets together once a week for dinner in its quarters in Eliot House M-Entry. There, in a panelled dining room about a large horseshoe table, the twenty-four Junior Fellows, nine Senior Fellows, and guests sit down to a very full, informal meal by candle light--the candles set in silver sticks engraved with the names of the members...