Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale fell easy prey to the team's powerhouse in the upper rungs, but Princeton proved to be the toughest meet of the season. Every match went the full five games and was ultimately won by slim margins in the last games. Nevertheless, the squad emerged on top of a 7-2 match score...
Floyd Wilson's Crimson team was never in control of the contest, but it maintained a slim lead from the opening jump until 12:31 of the second half. At that point, Brown's ace, Mike Cingiser, scored on a fast break and put his team ahead, 42 to 40, for the first time this evening...
...last week, as Tunisia's Mongi Slim rapped his olive-wood presidential gavel to adjourn the Assembly, the U.N. was probably in better shape than at any time since Hammarskjold's best days. Russia had scored virtually no gains in the Assembly, suffered some severe defeats. Most notable was Moscow's failure to seat Red China as a U.N. member and to impose its troika scheme for a three-man U.N. executive, which would have paralyzed the world body's operations...
...chosen to take over Hammarskjold's vacant post, performed his difficult task admirably. In the Congo crisis, he was tough and fast on his feet; his quiet diplomacy helped get Indonesia and The Netherlands to agree to negotiate the West New Guinea dispute. Along with respected President Slim, U Thant kept the Assembly serious and businesslike; in many ways, delegates found him more decisive than...
...nearly a week, the slim, greying American walked through the winding streets of Assisi, pausing now and then before the office of Father Giovanni Rossi, founder of an institute for lay Catholics called Pro-Civitate-Christiana. Finally, he burst in on the priest. "Of course," he blurted out. "I must be converted." Two weeks later, Artist William Congdon was baptized as a Roman Catholic, and -as he puts it-"fell into the church as a child abandons itself to the mother...