Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clinging to the idea that if Russia aids India, it will not supply China, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru played up the Soviet promise to send MIG jet fighters to the Indian air force. When Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys suggested in London that chances of delivery seemed slim, Nehru retorted tartly that he had "authoritative information" that the MIGs would be Delivered...
...cannot help catching the common cold, grippe, influenza, and related viral diseases. Nor can he expect much help from the medical profession. At the A.M.A.'s clinical meeting, Dr. Edward L. Buescher of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research made no secret of the doctors' slim chance of success in the search for cures or preventives...
...years. The excess manufacturing capacity that burdens much of U.S. industry helps to keep corporate overhead costs high. At the same time, by encouraging U.S. corporations to produce more goods than the consumer demands, excess capacity prevents prices from rising as fast as costs-and thus keeps profits slim...
Holding a slim four-point lead at halftime, B.C. shot into a 28-29 lead in the opening minutes of the third quarter, and then began to freeze the ball. For four minutes this strategy--which had wrecked the Crimson against Amherst Saturday night--was successful. But three long jump shots by Gene Augustine, Pete Kelley, and Denny Lynch, combined with some sterling defensive play, whittled the gap to three points with 9:05 remaining in the contest...
That brings me, unfortunately, to the great problem of Sunday night's performance. Tacko Tsukamoto is the prettiest Butterfly I have ever seen: she is slim, graceful, and really looks "just fifteen." All this is infinitely preferable to Renata Tebaldi lumbering about the stage in yards of flowered silk, but vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing...