Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slim Chance. The hastily scheduled meeting, Johnson made clear, betokened no military crisis or vital policy change. Rather, as suggested by its unprecedented emphasis on peaceful programs for the Vietnamese, the President's mission reflected his determination to continue what he calls his "two-fisted" approach to the war: a simultaneous attempt to wage the conflict with vigor while hoping to end it at the negotiating table. Johnson had resumed that now-familiar stance earlier in the week when he announced resumption of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam while taking his peace offensive to the United Nations...
...become a forum for anti-American tirades and might also force a hardening of the Soviet position. But a renewed appeal for U.N. "arbitration" from Pope Paul VI, coinciding with a cogent memo from Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, persuaded the President to try. "It's a slim chance," said a U.S. official, "but one worth probing." Just how slim a chance was demonstrated when the U.S. managed to get its resolution requesting the U.N. to arrange a peace conference on the Security Council's agenda by a one-vote margin. Since Hanoi had already announced that...
...government. But with a wide majority for Labor of 50 to 100 seats, the left-wingers could revolt at will on every niggling issue, not only embarrassing Wilson but also putting him in greater danger of a Tory upset than at present. Thus, in one sense at least, a slim lead for Labor is healthier than...
...retrievers. She wakes at 6 a.m., sips a glass of milk as she pores over the morning's papers. At 7:30 she has a light breakfast. Her father would not tolerate fat people around him, and the 5 ft. 2 in. Indira has done her best to remain slim. As Information Minister, she usually received a stream of visitors after breakfast who were seeking darshan (communion) or asking for redress from grievances. Her day at the office was long; most of her evenings were spent at home reading...
...flagrant violation of Pennsylvania sovereignty," charged Governor William Scranton. "A throwback to the days of the bounty hunters," cried Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Richard S. Schweiker. What caused all the outrage last week was the case of a slim, 19-year-old Negro boy who had been seized at his home in a Philadelphia suburb by two Alabama bondsmen and carted off to Mobile...