Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary people were friendly and kind, the government and its representatives were as consistently chilly and hostile. Wherever he went, Stevens was followed, either blatantly by blue-capped MVD men in small, black Pobeda automobiles or by the ubiquitous "slim, competent, peaches-and-cream young lady from Intourist," the official Soviet travel agency. Writes Stevens: "I don't know why it is so annoying to be followed like that, but it is. There is a sort of depression that settles over...
Culver has only slim chances to gain on Smith this week, needing 111 yards to tie Smith's record as it stands...
Buffalo on Beacon. In the next ten years, Joaquin fought Indians, fathered three children and two slim, dim books of verse and spent most of his time boozing in "doggeries" (saloons) and pasting whisky ads in the family Bible. Fed up, Minnie left with the children, and on June 6, 1870, Joaquin sailed from Portland, Ore. for San Francisco and the life of letters. Blond locks aflow, Joaquin strode down the gangplank and announced: "Let us go and talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused...
Whose chances some though pretty slim...
...Pusey is a slim, keen-looking woman with quiet good taste in clothes and conversation. Some people seem incapable of bad humor and Mrs. Pusey is one of those people. Here is a non-aggressive charm, relaxed and completely natural...