Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close, though, until the eighth inning, when Harvard batted around, scoring three runs on four hits. Holy Cross had taken an early 1 to 0 lead in the third inning, but the Crimson tied the count in the fifth, and held a slim 2 to 1 margin in the sixth inning...
...Savannah office as well as any man. But 15 months ago, a loud, cigar-chewing, Savannah car-rental operator, R. J. Bedgood, skipped town, leaving Hazel and her office holding the bag for $20,000 in mortgages on missing automobiles. After a year of investigating, Hazel developed one slim lead: Bedgood had once been a construction worker and might be working somewhere in the construction business...
...packed them with troops and flew them into the Plaine des Jarres at the rate of 50 aircraft a day. At Saigon, soldier clerks and interpreters were sent off to fight in Laos. At week's end there was a strong force of Foreign Legion battalions reinforcing the slim Laotian army. But Communist Giap had chosen his time well: within a few weeks the rainy season begins in Laos, and all but two of its 20 airstrips become unusable. This was why he had waited so patiently at the border, while the French-listening to the peace noises...
...stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have a flattish, gently undulating roof, and a square, 197-foot tower topped with a slim cross. Inside, Architect Gsaenger plans to erect movable steel and glass partitions, separating the church proper from an adjoining community center seating...
...down to a neck & neck duel between Chicago Manufacturer Jim Kimberly, 45, in a Ferrari, and California's Phill Hill, driving a Jaguar C. The Jag was quicker on the corners, but invariably lost ground on the longest straightaway, a 6,000-ft. runway where Kimberly gunned his slim, low-hung speedster up to 150 m.p.h...