Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent. George hovered about the salon, supervised underlings ("Set her sides in pins, the top so, so and so in rollers. Oh God, just give her what she wants"), and longed for home ("New York is overrated; the West is so much further ahead in fashion"). Blond and slim and looking slightly like the late James Dean, George first started styling hair eight years ago in Grosse Pointe, Mich. The heads he dressed then belonged to ordinary, everyday $100,000-a-year executives' wives. Today he teases hair (at $25 a turn in the salon, $75 for a house...
Meanwhile. Assembly President Mongi Slim bustled about the corridors, dickering, discussing and listening to all sides of the unsettled argument over the succession to Dag Hammarskjold's vacant post of Secretary-General. The Soviet plan no longer encompassed merely a troika, a three-headed executive. Now Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin was talking about a four-man body-two neutralists (African and Asian), a Communist and a Westerner -each, presumably, with a veto over the others that would render the whole operation useless. Said one U.N. diplomat: "You could call them the four Marxist Brothers...
...years had the Middle East seen so quick and clean a coup. Streaking, north from barracks outside Damascus, a slim rebel force of 20 tanks seized the capital at dawn. There were no mob scenes, no assassinations and almost no gunfire. When they tuned into Damascus radio at breakfast, Syrians learned that they had been "liberated" from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with...
...such matters as litur gical revisions, calendar reform, theological minutiae, and relations between the churches. Thus the patriarchs themselves stayed away from Rhodes; the conference was presided over by venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom, the Metropolitan of Myron-who served as the meeting's executive secretary. With true Orthodox grandiloquence, he said in his sermon at the opening Mass: "If I could characterize the Pan-Orthodox Conference in one word, I should not hesitate to say that...
...Graduate School of Education, naturally, needed the NDEA funds the most (and, in addition, teachers receive a rebate from the loans), but only a slim majority supported Pusey in the Spring of 1959 when he chose to accept the funds while going on record in opposition to the loyalty provisions...