Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas MacArthur to be ineligible for any office of public trust. Yoshida assured Hatoyama that he would step down if Hatoyama should ever be eligible to hold office again. When the occupation ended, Hatoyama was free to play politics, but Yoshida hedged. Last fall, when the Liberals won a slim majority in the Diet, Yoshida-who controlled the party machinery-got himself renamed Premier. Hatoyama gave in but did not give up; his followers have been itching for a chance to overthrow Yoshida...
...began seaching around for further signs of the reversion to Edwardianism, and to our dismay, we found several. Although we've seen nobody wearing a bowler, we know there are several floating around. Various acquaintances are known to possess slim, black walking sticks. And the other day on Plympton Street, we noticed somebody wearing a black cape...
...while teaching at Harvard; two years later, disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet pact, he quit. Party members, he said, had tried to recruit faculty members, not to influence students. Now, in his opinion, "the influence of Communists is very slight" on the teaching profession. With some reluctance, the slim, spectacled teacher identified in the public hearing former fellow Communists about whom he had already testified in private...
Almost all experts questioned agreed that the likelihood of Russian aggression as a result of Stalin's death is very slim, mainly because whoever succeeds him will have to be concerned with internal consolidation of power...
...carrot look," said Gimbels, by wearing big collars, rounded jackets, yoked shawls, standaway necklines and stoles. You get the carrot look by wearing slim, clinging skirts. If you will insist on full skirts, for reasons aesthetical or anatomical, you shoo the fullness to the rear and never wear more than one petticoat. It's [also] possible to look utterly 1953 by standing on your head...