Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden death. Had George Reedy still been White House Press Secretary, such a query would have probably drawn a curt "No comment"-plus a suggestion, perhaps, that it was indelicate in its timing. But Bill Moyers, only a week in the job, took a puff on a slim cigar and answered evenly that the President had already talked over possible replacements with his staff and would not fill the post until after the funeral services for Stevenson...
...Australia's most promising teen-age runner, Ron Clarke received the honor at 19 of carrying the Olympic torch into the Melbourne stadium for the start of the 1956 Olympics. The slim (6 ft. 168 lbs.) distance man did not himself catch fire until about a year...
...element of firepower joined the growing weight of U.S. arms in Viet Nam. Into the shoaling waters of South Viet Nam's east coast swept the slim destroyers of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, searching out Viet Cong concentrations with their hard-hitting 5-in. guns. In half a dozen operations, naval artillery socked more than 370 rounds onto targets as deep as four miles inland. The big rifles proved effective: sharpshooting by the U.S.S. Somers broke the back of a Communist assault on a district headquarters in Binh Thuan province, killing twelve and wounding...
Ruffles and flourishes started the visit on the White House South Lawn. "Enemies of peace and foes of freedom still move in the world," Johnson told his short, slim visitor by way of greeting. "But their chance to prevail is a much lesser chance now because of the response that was made in Korea by those United Nations which showed a decent respect for the values-as well as the opinions-of all mankind. We welcome this strength that your land offers now to the defense of freedom, not only in Korea but in Viet Nam as well...
...Slim, white-haired and scholarly, Arrupe fills a vacancy created last October by the death of the Very Rev. John Baptist Janssens of Belgium. He takes over the leadership of the 36,000-member order, the most influential in the Roman Catholic Church, at a time when the Jesuits are considering reform (TIME, May 21). Arrupe has some definite ideas on what that reform should be. Said an American Jesuit delegate after last week's election: "He wants to update the structure of the order. He sees the need for advanced studies...