Word: slim
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...tillable soil (the rest is too cold, mountainous or arid), Peking's planners have only one-third of an acre from which to nourish each stomach; whereas in other countries the ratio is two or three acres per person. With fertilizer still in short supply, rations continue slim...
Each week "da boys" quote point spreads on major football games across the country. In the Ivy League this week they have rated the Dartmouth-Yale game at virtually even odds, and established Cornell a slim one-point choice over Columbia...
...criticized social security in a state full of retired people, derided the moon race despite heavy U.S. space-spending in Florida. Democratic Senator Spessard Holland, up for reelection, is working hard for Johnson. That, plus a 283,000 Negro registration, up 115,000 from 1960, should give L.B.J. a slim lead...
...Slim Tower. The Chinese test was in the atmosphere; the nuclear device was probably perched on a slim tower several hundred feet high to keep the fireball out of contact with the ground. This type of test, outlawed by the U.S.. Russia and Britain by the 1963 test ban treaty, has much to recommend it to the novice nuclear power. The explosion's position is known precisely, and it can be watched by hundreds of instruments, some of them so close that they are vaporized a few microseconds after they send their data...
Trying to run the government and pass legislation with that slim a margin will prove an immense strain-and, before too long, probably impossible. In 1950 Clement Attlee's Labor government won a majority of six, and Attlee was forced to call another election within 18 months, which Labor lost, starting the long Tory reign. During those 18 months, politicians used to crack: "Suppose there's an important vote in the Commons and a taxi carrying a full load of Labor M.P.s breaks down-out goes the government." As things are now, the taxi need not even carry...