Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard was not able to move away until after 500 meters. At that point, all they had managed was a slim deck-length margin. Captain Curt Canning expressed disappointment at the inconclusive start. He noted that Harvard would have to do a good deal better before next week's Adams Cup race against Pennsylvania...
Alienation of affection suits are relatively rare. What few there are are almost invariably brought by one marriage partner against the other's lover, and they are hard to win. Thus, the chances of Melvin Bradesku, a Cleveland electrician, seemed slim when he decided to file such a suit last year. Or even slimmer, considering the defendant. His wife, he said, had been stolen away from him by a church. The whole thing continued to appear exceptionally ludicrous, in fact, right up until last week when an Akron jury ordered various representatives of the church...
...This nostalgia binds them to the black man," Coles said, but the chances for a "grand alliance" of Negroes and poor whites remain slim because the whites think of "law and order as being on their side...
...might be expected, Yale showed infinite improvement the next year, successfully avenging Harvard's initial victory. However, the Yale win was marred by the ungentlemanly conduct of the Blue spectators. When a Yale player kicked the ball over the goal in the final period to give the Bulldogs a slim lead, the partisan New Haven crowd pranced onto the field and used up 20 minutes of precious playing time carrying the Yale players around on their shoulders. Although football has changed considerably since these early times, the Yalies--sadly-have...
...addressed once, but the response comes from a brazen woman with several millions and the freedom of socialites in her honey-raucous voice. Clearly the voice does not belong to Anastasia. Hunter may be suggesting a parallel between Hip and High Society (the connections are not so slim, Jim, but there is no space to make them here), or perhaps some platinum vein in Anastasia's mind...