Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murderland. Two brave British policemen volunteered to deliver the letters. They were Special Branch Superintendent Ian Henderson, 27, and his strapping blond assistant, 32-year-old Bernard Ruck. Henderson is a slim, nut-brown Scot who grew up with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm. He speaks Swahili, Meru, Kamba, Kikuyu, French and Afrikaans. Day after day, following China's directions, Henderson and Ruck drove into the forest, unarmed and alone. The forest had eyes, and one captured Mau Mau reported a snatch of dialogue between two Mau Mau sentinels...
More than 5,000,000 Belgians went to the polls last week (voting is compulsory) for the first national election in four years. Premier Jean Van Houtte's Social Christian (Catholic) Party, which has had a slim parliamentary majority, emerged from the election still the largest party, but it lost so many seats that Van Houtte submitted his resignation. King Baudouin asked him to stay on a while as caretaker. Biggest gainer: Paul-Henri Spaak's Socialists. A coalition government with Socialist participation is certain, but whether the Socialists team up with the Social Christians or with...
...slim woman in a blue linen suit spoke into the radiotelephone at French GHQ: "This is Mme. de Castries calling Dienbienphu. Is that you, darling?" In the fortress command post 175 miles away, Colonel de Castries came to the set. Asked Mme. de Castries: "Are you all right, Christian?" Said the colonel: "Never better." Mme. de Castries warned of the coming monsoon: "I hope your raincoat has not been destroyed." The colonel later messaged his wife for razor blades and shaving cream. "He is extremely confident," Mme. de Castries told a London Daily Express reporter. "I know...
Chances that 35 AFROTC seniors at the College and some 3,000 throughout the country will receive their promised Air Force commissions when they graduate "appear very slim at the moment," three of the cadets reported yesterday after talks with top Washington officials...
Fame & Fortune. Now 33, Mathieu has already made his fame in Europe, sells everything he paints. Slim, dapper, cultivated, he occupies a town house furnished with fine Gothic furniture and Persian carpets, in the fashionable La Muette section of Paris. He whips out small paintings in as little as ten minutes, and even his huge pictures require no more than a couple of hours to paint. This, as Mathieu is frank to point out, leaves him "lots of time for other activi ties . . . I'm keenly interested in modern music, philosophy, mathematics, poetry, literature...