Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week. Hopefully, the perennial battle of Rule 22 then would be fought to a settlement once...
...winter, 5:30 in summer), Dr. Keys eats a leisurely breakfast-half a grapefruit, dry cereal with skim milk, unbuttered toast, jam and coffee. Then, brown paper lunch bag on the seat beside him, he drives to work in a two-toned Karmann-Ghia. Although lunch is slim-a sardine sandwich, an olive, a cooky and a glass of skim milk-Keys eats with deliberate slowness. "I don't like to insult food," he says. Lunch done, he sits back, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep for exactly ten minutes in his office chair...
...Over & Over." As the hundreds upon hundreds of rescue workers fought their way courageously through the smoking disaster, others were converging on Staten Island's tiny Miller Field, an Army helicopter and small-plane airport. The TWA Constellation had fallen on the edge of the field, a slim 150 ft. beyond a residential section and two schools. "It went down in a terrible way," said one woman, "one wing gone-and it turned over and over very slowly." Seat-belted bodies were flung everywhere. An Army squad arrived in trucks, played extinguishers on burning bodies, crawled into the wreckage...
When Leland Hayward and his third wife, Slim, were divorced last May, part of the settlement involved territorial rights in New York nightclubs, to avoid embarrassing encounters. Hayward, for example, was assigned one side of El Morocco, while Slim got the other side and the Champagne Room, too. Very few New Yorkers consider their nightclubs that important, but for a month now they have been hearing the din of a limited war over a 20-year-old police ordinance that requires nightclub employees-from entertainers to hat-check girls-to carry police identity cards. A Citizens' Emergency Committee...
...actually gained in Florida, where the lone white pupil at one Dade County school withdrew, leaving the state with one mixed school that has 27 Negroes. In sum: only 6.3% of the South's Negro schoolchildren attend integrated classes this year. The gain over last year is a slim...