Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking for dollars,to finance its last-ditch stand against the U.S. line, planned to stop at South Viet Nam, Formosa, South Korea. Since these countries are heavily supported by the U.S.. it would merely be a roundabout way of getting U.S. funds, and the chances looked slim. For better or worse, the U.S. is still determined to force the anti-Communists of Laos into neutrality...
...Crimson seven should smash a weak Brandeis squad, but the match with Holy Cross could be a tough one. Holy Cross narrowly lost a match to Brown on Tuesday by a slim 4 to 3 margin. Harvard edged out the Bruins 4 to 3 last week...
Raised in the tyrant's shadow, Vasily made the worst of it, demanded and got the same fawning servility he saw heaped upon Stalin. Despite special tutors, he was an indifferent student. Only flying seemed to interest the short (5 ft. 3 in.), slim, red-haired youth, and in 1941 he finally got his wings. In the air Vasily won the reputation of a daredevil pilot; during the postwar years, he occupied a lavish, heavily guarded 30-room villa at Dallgow, near Potsdam, earned notoriety as caring only for drink and women. Partial to cruel practical jokes, he enjoyed...
...bomber that soared high overhead last week held a special significance. Telescopes and electronic eyes on the Atlantic Missile Range traced every mile of the big ship's progress. The reason for the intense interest was obvious. Under the bomber's right wing hung a slim Skybolt missile, the newest and most promising weapon of the U.S. Air Force...
...wander across the face of history, vaguely searching for their meaning. When the final volume was published, it was clear that for all his effort, despite brilliant vignettes and telling insights, Romains had achieved only a grandeur of detail, a vivid anatomical drawing of French society. Now, in a slim volume that might also be a coda-like summary, Romains abandons the study of history close-up and attempts a view from afar...