Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small in size and yet possessing tremendous atomic fire power, such a proposal seems satisfactory on casual inspection. If the old Russian plan for destroying atomic weapons without limiting other armaments had gone into effect, the United States might have found herself facing huge totalitarian armies with only the slim manpower provided in the present defense economy...
...outspoken man who brought down the personal ire of Joseph Stalin on to the heads of Yugoslav Communists was a slim, sensitive-looking Communist intellectual named Milovan Djilas. He wrote the sharp anti-Soviet newspaper articles which preceded Marshal Tito's dramatic break from the Cominform in 1948. When Djilas' heretical words first broke into print, the Red world gasped. But Marshal Tito stood firmly behind Milovan Djilas. "Old Comrade," said Tito, "we'll stick together...
When she was a teenager, Barbara Hutton, the five & dime store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with feline contentment: "She's got money, but look at that shape." When pretty Barbara grew older, she reduced until her bones showed. Afterward, she was sick a lot. Between bouts in expensive hospitals she wandered wanly around Europe, wearing jewels and Paris dresses and collecting husbands (two princes, one count and Movie Actor Gary Grant) as befitted a member of international society...
Chances of breaking the deadlock in the Cambridge election for mayor seemed slim at 7:30 p.m. yesterday, when the nine-man City Council met for a second day of balloting...
...preliminary game, the Crimson beat Springfield, 56 to 45, to take third place in the holiday event. Norm Shepard's team was never behind, but held only a slim 13 to 11 lead at the quarter. From there, it proceeded to pull away, with the dependable Dennis taking top honors with 18 points...