Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headless, handless body of a woman covered with green algae was fished out of a lake in upstate New York. The hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least...
...with the People's Republic of China quickly evolved into a diplomatic mission of another sort: how to pretend your hosts are not trying to put down a revolution at the same time they're teaching you how to use chopsticks. This scenario, alas, was not covered in the slim white protocol books given to the Soviet entourage and the 80 or so reporters who accompanied Gorbachev from Moscow. What the book did cover often proved useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied by two soldiers of the Chinese honor guard, did "the distinguished guest...
...that afternoon at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, the Big Green football team was a mean, lean fighting machine. The defending Ivy champion Crimson committed six turnovers and fell, 38-7. Harvard's chances of finshing on top of the Ivy standings for the second year in a row were slim even before the game began...
With hindsight, it is easy to see why a slim, self-effacing Englishman named Thomas Edward Lawrence became one of this century's most ballyhooed celebrities. Out of the appalling carnage of World War I -- the mud-caked anonymity of the trenches, the hail of mechanized death that spewed from machine guns and fell from airplanes -- there emerged a lone Romantic, framed heroically against the clean desert sands of Arabia. U.S. journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany...
...slim majority of students said they support a recent Undergraduate Council resolution calling on Harvard to bring the Reserve Officers Training Corps back on campus without academic credit, according to an unscientific Crimson poll conducted yesterday...