Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chances for that win are slim, however, for both Dick Manning and Captain Ed Krinsky have suffered ankle injuries. Manning is definitely not ready, and sophomore Bob Bowman will take his place at center; Krimsky is still a possible starter. If the guard has to be replaced, Coach Norm Shepard will use either Roger Bulger or Rollin Perry. Harry Sacks and Bill Dennis will open at the forwards...
...Capitol Hill, even Dulles' admirers gasped at this new date to wrestle two bears simultaneously, for if the hopes for Berlin were slim, the chances of getting out of Geneva without a mauling seemed downright perilous...
...back up and went to work with bar bells to build muscle and weight. He also began to fool around with the 35-lb. weightthrow, a track & field event normally reserved for bulge-bellied giants-in fact, the weight men are commonly called "whales." At Tufts College, Backus, still slim but taking on weight, became a better-than-average weight-thrower, but he was always in the shadow of his roommate Tom Bane, who in 1951 set a world record with a throw...
...Rice was the godfather of another Manhattan convert, Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton. Working with Peter J. McDonnell, a printing salesman and now Jubilee's advertising manager, they financed their project by offering one share of stock with each $5-a-year subscription. When they had a slim $60,000 to go on, they put out their first issue. Now Jubilee has Editor Rice and eight others working full time, with four more part-time assistants. In the February issue, the editors felt fat enough to make their first standard introductory offer (six months...
...Hugh was the first Jamaican chief executive to touch what is now Haitian soil since Acting Governor Sir Henry Morgan, the respectably retired pirate, was shipwrecked on French Hispaniola 279 years ago. In Sir Hugh's honor, the Foreign Minister put on an elegant ball, and the tall, slim governor gamely accommodated his swooping waltz style to the intricacies of the Haitian meringue...