Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That committee, chaired by Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, actually had ready early in the spring a series of recommendations very similar to the ones eventually adopted. But the Committee on Houses didn't like the slim single page memorandum that suggested the change and told the Committee to go back and prepare a more detailed report...
...demonstration crystallized much of the dissatisfaction at Radcliffe and gave it a direction: to change student government and make it more responsive to student concerns. Three alternative constitutions were drawn up, and the most radical of these, RUS, won by a slim majority...
...Guesses. France now faces a battle of ballots, not bullets. The opposition parties, from Communists to centrists, welcomed De Gaulle's call for parliamentary elections and immediately laid plans for campaigning. Most French political experts gave De Gaulle's party only a slight chance of regaining its slim working majority in the National Assemblv. It seemed likely, in fact, that there would be a standoff between Gaullists and leftists in the race for the National Assembly's 487 seats. In that event, there would undoubtedly ensue a period of intense maneuvering until one side won enough supporters...
...hours, they followed the crowbar's path, repairing damaged organs as they discovered them through two incisions in the Building Wrecker's abdomen and chest. Last week Piper was home recuperating from his wounds and planning to go back to work. Said one doctor, reflecting on the slim chances for surviving such a wound: "He's a tough little Irishman, or he wouldn't be here...
Chances of survival with a new heart are slim, but the odds against a lung transplant are unknown. Only three whole-human -lung transplants are known to have been attempted in medical history, and the longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis...